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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
apoplectic, arthritic, beyond recall, beyond remedy, case, consumptive, cureless, dyspeptic, epileptic, fatal, gone, habitual, hopeless, immedicable, impossible, incorrigible, inoperable, inpatient, invalid, inveterate, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, lost, outpatient, past hope, past praying for, patient, relentless, remediless, rheumatic, ruined, shut-in, sick person, spastic, sufferer, terminal, terminal case, the sick, uncorrectable, undone, unflagging, unmitigable, unrelievable, unsalvable, unsalvageable, valetudinarian
Dictionary Results for incurable:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
incurable
    adj 1: incapable of being cured; "an incurable disease"; "an
           incurable addiction to smoking" [ant: curable]
    2: unalterable in disposition or habits; "an incurable optimist"
    n 1: a person whose disease is incurable

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Incurable \In*cur"a*ble\, a. [F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See
   In- not, and Curable.]
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   1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or
      medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
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            A scirrhus is not absolutely incurable. --Arbuthnot.
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   2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction;
      irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
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            Rancorous and incurable hostility.    --Burke.
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            They were laboring under a profound, and, as it
            might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.
                                                  --Sir J.
                                                  Stephen.

   Syn: Irremediable; remediless; irrecoverable; irretrievable;
        irreparable; hopeless.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Incurable \In*cur"a*ble\, n.
   A person diseased beyond cure.
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