as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
an incurable flirt at school dances
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Recent Examples of incurable
Sachs committed suicide in 2011, seeking relief from an incurable degenerative disease, according to his family.
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Angelina Rascouet, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
Although treatment is available, pancreatic cancer is considered largely incurable.
—Charles Trepany, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
Parr earlier this year revealed that he had been diagnosed with incurable myeloma.
—News Desk, Artforum, 15 Dec. 2025
Massachusetts health officials announced Tuesday that the state has confirmed its first case of an incurable lung disease linked to exposure to certain countertop stones.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 11 Dec. 2025
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Angelina Rascouet, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
Although treatment is available, pancreatic cancer is considered largely incurable.
—Charles Trepany, USA Today, 23 Dec. 2025
Parr earlier this year revealed that he had been diagnosed with incurable myeloma.
—News Desk, Artforum, 15 Dec. 2025
Massachusetts health officials announced Tuesday that the state has confirmed its first case of an incurable lung disease linked to exposure to certain countertop stones.
—Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 11 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incurable
Adjective
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Other people were staring at the ground, hopeless.—
Kristi Miller,
Twin Cities,
13 Jan. 2026
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What lies ahead can’t possibly be worse, however, than the embarrassing false starts, the constant churn of organizational dysfunction and the thin, hopeless gruel that Vancouver has served up over the past decade.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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But the Coop had one thing that failed cooperatives didn’t: Joe Holtz, a gregarious 22-year-old from Sheepshead Bay with a mind for numbers and an incorrigible idealism.—
The Editors,
Curbed,
15 Dec. 2025
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Mary Roy, too, married to flee violence—her father, a civil servant under the British, beat his wife and whipped his children—only to find that her husband was an incorrigible drunk.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Incurable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incurable. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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