Usually means: Not able to be cured.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word incurable:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. incurable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. incurable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incurable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. incurable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. incurable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Incurable, incurable: Wordnik
  7. incurable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. incurable: Wiktionary
  9. incurable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. incurable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. incurable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. incurable: Dictionary.com
  13. incurable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. incurable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Incurable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Incurable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. incurable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. incurable: Rhymezone
  19. incurable, incurable, incurable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. incurable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. incurable: Free Dictionary
  22. incurable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. incurable: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incurable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. incurable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Incurable: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. incurable: Medical dictionary
  5. Incurable: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See incurables as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
▸ adjective:  (figuratively) Irremediable, incorrigible.
▸ noun:  One who cannot be cured.

Similar:
unalterable, inalterable, hopeless, healless, immedicable, unrecuring, unhealable, insanable, irrelievable, uncurable, more...

Opposite:
curable, treatable, remediable

Types:
cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, more...

Phrases:
An Incurable Case of Love, more...

Adjectives:
breach, poor, lived, disseminated, chronic, particular, more, ill, hopeless, fit, une


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Similar:
unalterable, inalterable, hopeless, healless, immedicable, unrecuring, unhealable, insanable, irrelievable, uncurable, more...

Opposite:
curable, treatable, remediable

Types:
cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, more...

Phrases:
An Incurable Case of Love, more...

Adjectives:
breach, poor, lived, disseminated, chronic, particular, more, ill, hopeless, fit, une



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