as in hopeless
not capable of being cured or reformed
an incurable flirt at school dances
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Recent Examples of incurable
Alpha’s mom, who works in a hospital vainly treating these incurable patients, doesn’t want her only child to come down with the disease.
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Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
Arcellx is developing a new class of immunotherapies for patients with cancer and other incurable diseases.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
Arcellx focuses on immunotherapies for patients with cancer and others with incurable diseases.
—Scott Schnipper, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026
By the time Jackson was honored at the 2024 Democratic Convention, his once-thundering voice was silenced by an incurable neurological disorder.
—Mark Whitaker, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
Arcellx is developing a new class of immunotherapies for patients with cancer and other incurable diseases.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
Arcellx focuses on immunotherapies for patients with cancer and others with incurable diseases.
—Scott Schnipper, CNBC, 23 Feb. 2026
By the time Jackson was honored at the 2024 Democratic Convention, his once-thundering voice was silenced by an incurable neurological disorder.
—Mark Whitaker, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incurable
Adjective
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Kay seems to be more of a relentless romantic than a hopeless one.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Swiss Eugen Bleuler, a follower of Kraepelin, replaced the term dementia praecox, which implied hopeless deterioration, with the softer term schizophrenia.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Daisy’s strategy with Mike has always been to treat him like a misbehaved child, which works insofar as scolding an incorrigible child does.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2026
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Terrible for me, an incorrigible snoop of other people’s phones, but probably a good thing for society at large.—
David Pierce,
The Verge,
28 Feb. 2026
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“Incurable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incurable. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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