as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
an incurable flirt at school dances
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Recent Examples of incurable
Tinnitus is an incurable condition that causes the perception of noise that can vary in each person from a low roar to a high pitch.
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Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Not for the last decade, since he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a treatable but incurable blood cancer.
—Jay Posner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
The Natchez resident had multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer.
—Bonnie Bolden, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Tennis champion Monica Seles is speaking publicly for the first time about her battle with a rare, incurable muscle-weakening disease.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Beth Warren, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
Not for the last decade, since he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a treatable but incurable blood cancer.
—Jay Posner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
The Natchez resident had multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer.
—Bonnie Bolden, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2025
Tennis champion Monica Seles is speaking publicly for the first time about her battle with a rare, incurable muscle-weakening disease.
—Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incurable
Adjective
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Nearly half of them reported feeling down, depressed or hopeless and experiencing sleep disturbances.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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The movie stars Michael Johnston and Inde Navarrette in a story about a hopeless romantic who makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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Who was this alien observer, whose gaze made me into a (slightly) better person, whose gaze (slightly) reduced my incorrigible self-centeredness?—
Michael W. Clune,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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“Incurable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incurable. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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