immedicableadj.
/ɪˈmɛdɪkəb(ə)l/ 1. Incapable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > of persons: beyond cure or remedy > of disease or wound
recurelessc1425
unrecoverable1461
remedilessa1513
cureless1557
irrecoverable1594
unrecuring1594
immedicable1596
unruly1596
irrecured1598
irrelievable1670
irremediable1801
incorrigible1804
immedicinable1826
untreatable1865
inoperable1886
unrelievable1898
1596 R. Linche Certaine Sonnets in Diella sig. B With fatall and ymedicable wound.
1660 T. Willsford Scales Commerce & Trade 100 Glutted with excesse, [they] become immedicable by those surfeits.
1744 J. Armstrong Art of preserving Health ii. 38 More immedicable ills.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 107 It is a disease immedicable by the healing art.
2. transferred and figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > desperate state or condition > [adjective] > of events, actions, etc.
unbootlyc1225
uncurablea1340
bootlessa1375
incurable1377
unremediablea1382
irreparablea1420
irrecuperable1430
unrecuperable?a1439
unrecoverable1461
unrecurable1465
remedilessa1513
remedeless1523
unrecompensablea1530
inemendable1532
immedicable1533
irrecoverablec1540
insanable1547
irremediable1547
irrecurable1548
unredeemable1551
cureless1557
unreparable1568
unrepairable1576
unmendable1584
unrelievablea1586
remedless1590
recurelessa1592
irrepairable1594
unrecovered1598
irremediless1602
unredressable1607
unsalvable1624
unrallied1651
reliefless1677
irrelievable1797
1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. i. xxiiii. f. cv Thorow his imedicable [sic]malyce he fell of hym selfe.
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 13 For anothers perversnes, or immedicable disaffection?
1813 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 612 There remains an immedicable But.
1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare ii. 167 Immedicable scepticism of the spirit.
Derivatives
iˈmmedicableness n. incurableness.
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1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Immedicableness, incurableness.
iˈmmedicably adv. incurably.
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1867 P. Bayne in Contemp. Rev. Nov. 351 Madness, be its visions gay or gloomy, is immedicably sad.
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