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incurable

4 definitions • 4 examples
1
not able to be cured:

Examples:

incurable disease Parkinson's disease is a debilitating and incurable disease of the nervous system.
2
used to say that someone 's personality type does not change or cannot be changed:

Examples:

an incurable romantic/optimist/pessimist
3
not able to be cured:

Examples:

Before antibiotics the disease was incurable.
4
If you describe someone as incurable, you mean that nothing that happens can change something about the person:

Examples:

Marjorie is an incurable optimist.

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