INCURABLE

incurable. incurable, past cure, a wound that cannot be healed:

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incurable. Incurable, a. not to be cured, hopeless

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In‐cur″a‐ble (?), a. [[F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See In- not, and Curable.]] 1. 1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
A scirrhus is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot. 2. 2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
Rancorous and incurable hostility. Burke. 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.