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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The Knights could only manage a hopeless heave from well beyond halfcourt at the buzzer.—
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Produced by Feingold’s Romantical and distributed by Level33, the film follows Leo Kadner (Feingold), a hopeless romantic New Yorker who reconnects with his childhood crush Eva Shapiro (Sarah Coffey) while preparing for his 31-year-old Bar Mitzvah.—
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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.—
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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?—
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“Incurable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incurable. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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