incurable
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5.2
- adjective
- /ɪnˈkjʊrəbəl/
:
incurable
- I look at it now like it's an incurable disease.
- incurable disease
- incurable condition
- incurable illness
And Lombold, they've got a a huge malignant, inoperable or incurable brain tumor.
- And Lombold, they've got a a huge malignant, inoperable or incurable brain tumor.
- The biggest thing that shaped me was that I was healed of an incurable disease.
- Is this the story of a sad sack guy who who who gets like an incurable disease?
- But within a few days, it was I got the diagnosis that I had something called follicular lymphoma, which is an incurable blood cancer.
- Over in one year congression over over thousands of years to find unsolvable problems or incurable diseases.
- It is an incurable disease and it also is a disease which tells you you don't have a disease.
- Did you got there's like a incurable gonorrhea out there that like gonorrhea was a thing and like but they gave you pills for it.
Examples
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My husband is suffering from an incurable disease that eventually will kill him.
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Parkinson's disease is a chronic, progressive neurological disorder and is currently incurable.
Academic text (2010) -
Is that why God gave you an incurable disease?
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To all children with incurable cancer.
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And what seems like an incurable disease one day may have some sort of cure the next.
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There was nothing we could have done anyhow, because the disease was incurable.
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Did you know that Maryanne's mother had an incurable disease?
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For those living with incurable illness, the preservation of a good quality of life is paramount.
Academic text (2014) -
Mesothelioma, a form of cancer, is a terrible, incurable disease that occurs from exposure to asbestos.
Blog text (27) -
Many families are affected by the tragedy of an incurable disease, made even more challenging by the lack of treatment options.
Synonyms
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8.7
Hard to manage, change, or control
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6.5
Doctors cannot cure this condition now
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8.5
You cannot get it back or fix it after it is lost
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9.6
Not able to be fixed or made better
Cannot be fixed
A condition that cannot be cured by medicine or other ways
Too hard to get rid of completely, like deep roots that keep growing
Antonyms
Compounds
How Curable
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4.1
- Specialized
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3.5
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3.2
- Specialized
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6.5
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5.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word incurable comes from in- meaning 'not' and cure meaning 'to heal', just like the common word cure. So an incurable disease is literally 'not able to be healed'.