| 单词 | incurable |
| 释义 | incurable (once / 1843 pages) adjn Something incurable can't be fixed or healed. Incurable diseases can sometimes be lived with, but they can't be cured. An incurable crush on a movie star means there's no getting over it, and being diagnosed with an incurable illness is always bad news, because no medicine can eliminate it. Your friends might call you an incurable optimist — this means you always see the glass as half-full, and there's no changing your cheerful nature. Incurable combines the prefix in-, "not," and curable, from the Latin cura, "care or concern," and also "means of healing." WORD FAMILYincurable: incurability, incurableness, incurables, incurably+/curable: curability, curableness, incurable/curative: curatively, curatives/cure: curable, curative, cured, cures, curing/cured: uncured USAGE EXAMPLESThe diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis—which is incurable but treatable with medication—brought a glum sense of relief. The New Yorker(Dec 22, 2016) Both are incurable, although there are treatments for the second state. BBC(Dec 21, 2016) A progressive, incurable spinal condition, diagnosed when she was 21, ravages her body and no two days are the same. BBC(Dec 15, 2016) 1adj incapable of being cured an incurable disease an incurable addiction to smoking Ant curable curing or healing is possible 2adj unalterable in disposition or habits an incurable optimist Syn inalterable, unalterable not capable of being changed or altered 3n a person whose disease is incurable Hyper diseased person, sick person, sufferer a person suffering from an illness |
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