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Princeton's WordNet

  1. incurablyadverb

    to an incurable degree

    "she was incurably optimistic"

  2. incurablyadverb

    in a manner impossible to cure

    "he is incurably ill"

Wiktionary

  1. incurablyadverb

    In an incurable manner.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Incurablyadverb

    Without remedy.

    Etymology: from incurable.

    We cannot know it is or is not, being incurably ignorant. John Locke.

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  1. incurably

    Incurably is an adverb that refers to something being impossible to cure, correct, or rectify. It usually refers to illnesses or diseases that cannot be treated or gotten rid of, but can also apply to other situations or characteristics that cannot be changed or fixed.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Incurablyadverb

    in a manner that renders cure impracticable or impossible; irremediably

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of incurably in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of incurably in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of incurably in a Sentence

  1. Andy McCarthy:

    I don’t like ‘hate crimes’ charges because they overcomplicate violent crime prosecutions, sometimes incurably so, that is because they shift the emphasis from what the defendant did to what his motive was for doing it. That can be a trap, especially with a defendant who is likely to raise his mental capacity as a defense.

  2. Philip Roth:

    Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

  3. C. S. Lewis:

    Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?

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