incurably
3
7.0
- adverb
- /ɪnˈkjʊrəbli/
:
irremediablemente
- What if you're unemployable or incurably lazy?
- incurably ill
- incurably insane
- incurably sick
What if you're unemployable or incurably lazy?
- What if you're unemployable or incurably lazy?
- He says perhaps we should not break it off in every case, but only when our friends have become incurably bad.
Examples
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A genius in engineering, McArthur was an incurably disorganized businessman.
Fiction book (1992) -
It leaves its victims either dead or incurably mad.
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One day, Krishna fell incurably ill.
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Hopelessly insecure and incurably unhappy.
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She's become incurably defiant.
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In an old-age home for the incurably ill and incapacitated, the social worker sent me to a paralyzed man of about my own age, whom I visit once a fortnight and for whom I do various trifling errands.
Fiction book (1993) -
The doctors told her that the disease was incurably progressive and she would need constant care.
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After years of treatment, he learned that he was incurably ill and had to adjust to a new way of life.
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Despite their efforts, she remained incurably sad after losing her pet.
Synonyms
1
8.4
In a way that cannot be fixed
In a way that you cannot remove
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Incurably starts with in- ('not') and has the root curare ('to care' or 'to heal'), the same base as the everyday word cure. So incurably means 'not able to be healed' or made better.