incurable

About 1.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
2. adjective Irremediable, incorrigible.

   an incurable romantic

3. noun One who cannot be cured.

Similar words

unalterable inalterable hopeless irreparable untreatable intractable irreversible insurmountable unresolved persistent

Often followed by

disease and diseases illness by cancer malady wound romantic

Word family

incurables incurably