incurable

a. [ F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See In- not, and Curable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

A scirrhus is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rancorous and incurable hostility. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]