incurableadjective
uk/ɪnˈkjʊə.rə.bəl/us/ɪnˈkjʊr.ə.bəl/incurable adjective (DISEASE)
C2 not able to be cured:
Parkinson's disease is a debilitating and incurable disease of the nervous system.
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Disease & illness - general words
- autoimmune disease
- bilharzia
- bluetongue
- bout
- CFS
- CGD
- complaint
- dose
- dreaded lurgy
- endemic
- industrial disease
- lay
- life-threatening
- lurgy
- morbidity
- pandemic
- pinkeye
- strangulated
- syndrome
- wasting disease
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incurable adjective (PERSONALITY)
[ usually before noun ] used to say that someone 's personality type does not change or cannot be changed:
an incurable romantic/optimist/pessimist
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Not able to be changed
- a leopard can't/doesn't change its spots idiom
- be no hard and fast rules idiom
- burn your boats/bridges idiom
- congenital
- continuity
- fixed
- fixity
- hard line
- hard line
- immutable
- irredeemable
- irreducible
- irremediable
- irreparable
- irretrievable
- ossify
- stasis
- stuck
- uncompromising
- what's done is done idiom
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incurably
adverb uk/ɪnˈkjʊə.rə.bli/us/ɪnˈkjʊr.ə.bli/
She was told that she was incurably ill.
He's incurably cheerful.