Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: incurable
IPA transcription: [,ɪnkj'ʊɹəbəl]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: incurable
    Meaning: incapable of being cured; "an incurable disease"; "an incurable addiction to smoking"
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: incurable
    Meaning: a person whose disease is incurable
Usage examples
  • Such seldom escape without broken legs or severe contusions, which are often incurable.
  • "I'm not afraid to tackle almost any kind of fever known to medical science, but the shopping-fever--well, it is incurable.
  • But as soon as he heard of his illness, he showed an active interest in him, sent for a doctor, and tried remedies, but the disease turned out to be incurable.
  • Nor had Tifto and his own extravagance caused the Duke any incurable wounds. If Tregear could be got out of the way, his father, he thought, might be reconciled to other things.
  • Though, in his own judgment, his disease was mortal and incurable, yet he allowed himself to be prevailed upon, by the entreaty of his friends, to try what might be the effects of a long journey.
  • At the highest crisis of some incurable anguish there will suddenly fall upon the man the stillness of an insane contentment. It is not hope, for hope is broken and romantic and concerned with the future; this is complete and of the present.
  • It sometimes seems that I can not live another hour without seeing her; yet, thank God, I have reason enough left to know that every sight of her only adds to an already incurable malady. What will it be when she is the wife of the king of France?
  • "If she were ill, she would have sent for the doctor," said gossip number one; "now the doctor has been playing chess in my house all day. He said to me, laughing, that in these days there is only one disease, and that, unluckily, it is incurable."
  • One of the most conspicuous features of the room is a phonograph equipment on which the latest and best productions by the greatest singers and musicians can always be heard, but which Edison himself is everlastingly experimenting with, under the incurable delusion that this domestic retreat is but an extension of his laboratory.