Meaning & use
incurable
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Not able to be cured or corrected.
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The disease was diagnosed as incurable, though treatments could ease the symptoms.
He's an incurable optimist, no matter how many setbacks he faces.
A note on using this word
Incurable is used literally for illnesses and figuratively for deeply ingrained traits, as in 'an incurable romantic.'
Words with a similar meaning
untreatableirremediable
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Words with an opposite meaning
curabletreatable
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