Incurable

a.	1.
	1.	Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. A scirrhus is not absolutely incurable. - Arbuthnot.
	2.	Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. Rancorous and incurable hostility. - Burke. They were laboring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance. - Sir J. Stephen.
n.	1.	A person diseased beyond cure.

Noun	1.	incurable - a person whose disease is incurable
Adj.	1.	incurable - being such that a cure is impossible; "an incurable disease"; "an incurable addiction to smoking" Antonyms: curable - being such that curing or healing is possible; "curable diseases"
	2.	incurable - unalterable in disposition or habits; "an incurable optimist"

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