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# incurable

«incurable» in Mova's school dictionary: **An incurable illness cannot be cured: doctors cannot make…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (incurable; incurably adv.)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An incurable illness cannot be cured: doctors cannot make it go away, though they may help the person feel better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incurable/#m1)

2) An incurable habit or quality is so strong that it will never change: an incurable optimist always hopes for the best. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incurable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In health and science lessons and in family life: «an incurable disease», «sadly, the illness is incurable». Used kindly and humorously about character: «an incurable chatterbox», «an incurable romantic». It tells the reader something cannot be fixed or changed.

### examples

- The vet said the old dog's illness was incurable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incurable/#x1)
- Grandad has an incurable disease, but medicine helps him feel comfortable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incurable/#x2)
- My sister is an incurable chatterbox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incurable/#x3)
- Scientists are working hard to find treatments for incurable illnesses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incurable/#x4)
- Dad is an incurable optimist about the weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incurable/#x5)
- Some illnesses that were once incurable can now be cured. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incurable/#x6)
- She was incurably curious about everything. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incurable/#x7)
- Meanwhile, the wound of Telephus proving incurable, he consulted an oracle, and the response was, that he alone who had inflicted the wound possessed the power of curing it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incurable/#x8)

### note

in- + cure + -able = cannot be cured. «Incurable» does not always mean deadly: many incurable conditions, like some allergies, can be managed for life. Opposite: curable.

### In the corpora

- [Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, so that it refuseth to be healed?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.452/)
- [For thus saith the LORD: Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.819/)
- [Why criest thou for thy hurt, that thy pain is incurable?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.822/)
- [Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.883/)
- [And after all this the LORD smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.473/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «incurable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/incurable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.