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Definition of incurable in English: incurableadjective ɪnˈkjʊərəb(ə)lˌɪnˈkjʊrəb(ə)l 1(of a sick person or a disease) not able to be cured. （病人，疾病）无法治愈的，无可救药的 even when the sick are incurable they are never untreatable Example sentencesExamples - Devotees hold that any incurable disease will be cured and any desire will be fulfilled by pilgrimaging to this temple.
- Many of those who support human embryonic stem-cell research do so for the best of motives, to try and find cures for incurable diseases.
- Sigmund Freud echoed such views, while suffering from incurable cancer of the palate.
- He established one of the first licensed fetal-tissue banks in the country, collecting pancreases for research that may lead to cures for incurable diseases.
- That will change once people living with the incurable disease - for which there is still no vaccine - gain access to increasingly affordable, life prolonging antiretroviral drugs, it said.
- But the claim that a product can cure an incurable disease should sound alarms.
- The disease is incurable in about half of patients at presentation.
- A rocky relationship is unlikely to be saved by the crushing blow of chronic incurable illness.
- This predictability of the dying phase is not always as clear in other chronic incurable diseases.
- Here, hundreds of millions of men, women and children are suffering from an incurable disease, chronic arsonicosis, and millions more are at risk.
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare, incurable disease of poor prognosis.
- In this week's program we hear the personal stories of three people who have been struck down with the incurable illness Motor Neurone Disease.
- When he realised his disease was incurable he retired to pursue his interests and spend time with his young family.
- Neurologists are often accused of being interested in only rare incurable diseases.
- What about those tales where the whole ship falls sick with some incurable disease?
- Most of the problems associated with chronic or incurable illness, being social issues, require interventions by communities.
- There are incurable diseases in medicine, incorrigible vices in the ministry, insoluble cases in law.
- Even in cases of incurable cancer, palliative or experimental therapy may improve quality and extent of life.
- Thus most educated and uneducated groups sought and held sufficient biomedical knowledge to understand that diabetes was incurable and to commit to biomedical management.
- I could have been President, or the doctor who finds the cure for some incurable disease or anything else I ever set my mind to.
Synonyms untreatable, inoperable, irremediable, beyond cure terminal, fatal, deadly, mortal chronic, persistent, long-standing, constantly recurring, long-term rare immedicable - 1.1 (of a person or behaviour) unable to be changed.
（病人，疾病）无法治愈的，无可救药的 不可改变的乐观者。 Example sentencesExamples - I've mentioned before his incurable optimism and general good will and positive attitudes.
- The track record for winning anything was pretty poor, but I'm an incurable optimist.
- Hughes is well cast as the sympathetic, Candide-like Simon, an incurable optimist who talks about hopelessness without quite grasping the concept himself.
- ‘I find most skeptics to be incurable optimists,’ Hyde continues.
- Although an incurable enthusiast, Crampsey nevertheless cannot be optimistic about the future of football in Scotland.
- Ultimately, he is surprisingly reminiscent of the incurable sentimentalist, forever seeking comfort and reassurance for his damaged inner child.
- They came of gentry stock, and their father exhibited one of the occasional weaknesses of that origin - an incurable optimism in money matters which left him penniless.
- He is a great talker, a charming and incurable optimist, and everything is grist to his mill.
- An incurable optimist, I have every faith that technology will rid itself of its maladies and go on to create a better world.
- Her partner was an incurable optimist and also a firm believer in hope, and Drea knew that if it weren't for her sake, Kiremay would have kept going until the ends of the world.
- With incurable optimism went a sense of power and vast reserves of energy encompassing the continent.
- There are signs of improvement, but only an incurable optimist would conclude that the game is in rude health.
- For an incurable optimist like me, the Wallabies showed enough to keep me hopeful that they really can retain the World Cup as long as all the cards fall the right way.
- He responds with the optimism and fervour of the incurable romantic.
- Call me an incurable optimist, but it does happen.
- Infinitely understated but eminently sophisticated, this album is a treat made for incurable romantics to love unreservedly.
Synonyms inveterate, dyed-in-the-wool, confirmed, entrenched, established, long-established, long-standing, deep-rooted, diehard, complete, absolute, utter, thorough, thoroughgoing, out-and-out, true blue, through and through firm, unshakeable, staunch, steadfast, committed, devoted, dedicated, loyal, faithful, unswerving, unwavering, unfaltering unashamed, unapologetic, unrepentant, incorrigible, hopeless, beyond hope North American full-bore informal deep-dyed, card-carrying, mad keen, keen as mustard archaic arrant rare right-down
noun ɪnˈkjʊərəb(ə)lˌɪnˈkjʊrəb(ə)l A person who cannot be cured. 绝症病人 Example sentencesExamples - The details of their lives reach his ears in the discordant strains of barking seals, tubercular incurables, lowing cattle, bawling mourners, and want-to-be pundits.
- Showing little progress and imposing a burden on educators and their resources, the incurables were gradually abandoned in favor of those who showed more promise.
- From the early twentieth century many psychiatrists began to establish private practices in the belief that asylums had become repositories for the incurable.
- Triage will take one look at me and stick me with the rest of the incurables.
- The hospital - which has more than 2,000 fundraisers - was first opened as a cancer pavilion and home for incurables in 1892, but was renamed The Christie Hospital in 1901 in recognition of the pioneering work of both Mr and Mrs Christie.
Derivativesnoun ɪnkjʊərəˈbɪlɪtiɪnˌkjʊrəˈbɪlədi Three years later, hobbling with knee bandages and a mindset of incurability, I was directed by a colleague to a spiritual healer in a back street in Cambridge. Example sentencesExamples - Compounding the problem of incurability is that herpes, HIV, HPV, syphilis, chlamydia and others have asymptomatic periods during which an unknowingly infected person may be spreading the disease.
- All too often, quality of life is neither protected nor supported adequately between the stage of recognized incurability and death.
- But it was obvious to me the incurability of her situation, her prison created by homeopathic cocktails, allopathic cocktails and surgical interference.
- The increased levels of depression and anxiety around recurrence of breast cancer highlight the adverse effect of this event on women's mental health, which signals incurability and possible physical burden.
noun adverb ɪnˈkjʊərəbliɪnˈkjʊərəbli as submodifier incurably ill patients 绝症病人。 Example sentencesExamples - But he was also cruel, inconsistent, and incurably suspicious, a great taker of hostages; unable to feel trust, he could not inspire it.
- As a result, evidence of depression is often overlooked in ill or disabled persons who are suicidal, and some incurably ill or disabled persons experience pressure to refuse life-prolonging medical treatment.
- However, when it comes to an incurably ill adult who has a voice and a will of his or her own, these human rights are apparently taken away.
- Doubtless he would tell me that I am simply upset about my father being incurably ill, and that as his daughter I am simply expressing displaced anger.
- His wife, after bouts of mental illness, was hospitalised as incurably insane in 1919.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, or from late Latin incurabilis, from in- 'not' + curabilis (see curable). Definition of incurable in US English: incurableadjectiveˌinˈkyo͝orəb(ə)lˌɪnˈkjʊrəb(ə)l 1(of a sick person or a disease) not able to be cured. （病人，疾病）无法治愈的，无可救药的 Example sentencesExamples - When he realised his disease was incurable he retired to pursue his interests and spend time with his young family.
- Thus most educated and uneducated groups sought and held sufficient biomedical knowledge to understand that diabetes was incurable and to commit to biomedical management.
- Even in cases of incurable cancer, palliative or experimental therapy may improve quality and extent of life.
- He established one of the first licensed fetal-tissue banks in the country, collecting pancreases for research that may lead to cures for incurable diseases.
- But the claim that a product can cure an incurable disease should sound alarms.
- Many of those who support human embryonic stem-cell research do so for the best of motives, to try and find cures for incurable diseases.
- A rocky relationship is unlikely to be saved by the crushing blow of chronic incurable illness.
- In this week's program we hear the personal stories of three people who have been struck down with the incurable illness Motor Neurone Disease.
- What about those tales where the whole ship falls sick with some incurable disease?
- Most of the problems associated with chronic or incurable illness, being social issues, require interventions by communities.
- Devotees hold that any incurable disease will be cured and any desire will be fulfilled by pilgrimaging to this temple.
- I could have been President, or the doctor who finds the cure for some incurable disease or anything else I ever set my mind to.
- This predictability of the dying phase is not always as clear in other chronic incurable diseases.
- Here, hundreds of millions of men, women and children are suffering from an incurable disease, chronic arsonicosis, and millions more are at risk.
- Sigmund Freud echoed such views, while suffering from incurable cancer of the palate.
- That will change once people living with the incurable disease - for which there is still no vaccine - gain access to increasingly affordable, life prolonging antiretroviral drugs, it said.
- Neurologists are often accused of being interested in only rare incurable diseases.
- Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare, incurable disease of poor prognosis.
- The disease is incurable in about half of patients at presentation.
- There are incurable diseases in medicine, incorrigible vices in the ministry, insoluble cases in law.
Synonyms untreatable, inoperable, irremediable, beyond cure - 1.1 (of a person or behavior) unable to be changed.
（病人，疾病）无法治愈的，无可救药的 不可改变的乐观者。 Example sentencesExamples - They came of gentry stock, and their father exhibited one of the occasional weaknesses of that origin - an incurable optimism in money matters which left him penniless.
- For an incurable optimist like me, the Wallabies showed enough to keep me hopeful that they really can retain the World Cup as long as all the cards fall the right way.
- Although an incurable enthusiast, Crampsey nevertheless cannot be optimistic about the future of football in Scotland.
- He is a great talker, a charming and incurable optimist, and everything is grist to his mill.
- Call me an incurable optimist, but it does happen.
- With incurable optimism went a sense of power and vast reserves of energy encompassing the continent.
- There are signs of improvement, but only an incurable optimist would conclude that the game is in rude health.
- He responds with the optimism and fervour of the incurable romantic.
- Her partner was an incurable optimist and also a firm believer in hope, and Drea knew that if it weren't for her sake, Kiremay would have kept going until the ends of the world.
- I've mentioned before his incurable optimism and general good will and positive attitudes.
- Hughes is well cast as the sympathetic, Candide-like Simon, an incurable optimist who talks about hopelessness without quite grasping the concept himself.
- An incurable optimist, I have every faith that technology will rid itself of its maladies and go on to create a better world.
- Ultimately, he is surprisingly reminiscent of the incurable sentimentalist, forever seeking comfort and reassurance for his damaged inner child.
- Infinitely understated but eminently sophisticated, this album is a treat made for incurable romantics to love unreservedly.
- The track record for winning anything was pretty poor, but I'm an incurable optimist.
- ‘I find most skeptics to be incurable optimists,’ Hyde continues.
Synonyms inveterate, dyed-in-the-wool, confirmed, entrenched, established, long-established, long-standing, deep-rooted, diehard, complete, absolute, utter, thorough, thoroughgoing, out-and-out, true blue, through and through
nounˌinˈkyo͝orəb(ə)lˌɪnˈkjʊrəb(ə)l A person who cannot be cured. 绝症病人 Example sentencesExamples - The details of their lives reach his ears in the discordant strains of barking seals, tubercular incurables, lowing cattle, bawling mourners, and want-to-be pundits.
- Triage will take one look at me and stick me with the rest of the incurables.
- From the early twentieth century many psychiatrists began to establish private practices in the belief that asylums had become repositories for the incurable.
- The hospital - which has more than 2,000 fundraisers - was first opened as a cancer pavilion and home for incurables in 1892, but was renamed The Christie Hospital in 1901 in recognition of the pioneering work of both Mr and Mrs Christie.
- Showing little progress and imposing a burden on educators and their resources, the incurables were gradually abandoned in favor of those who showed more promise.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, or from late Latin incurabilis, from in- ‘not’ + curabilis (see curable). |