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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl/

形容詞

incurable (not comparable)

1. Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
   • 1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading:

     They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.

2. (figuratively) Irremediable, incorrigible.

   an incurable romantic

同意語

• uncurable

反意語

• curable

派生語

関連する語

• incurability
• terminal

名詞

incurable (plural incurables)

1. One who cannot be cured.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 7:

     Heatherlegh, the Doctor, kept, in addition to his regular practice, a hospital on his private account — an arrangement of loose-boxes for Incurables, his friends called it — but it was really a sort of fitting-up shed for craft that had been damaged by stress of weather.

アナグラム

• binuclear