incurable
adjectifnomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl//
- États-Unis//ˌɪnˈkjʊɹəbl//
Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
adjectif
- 1
Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.
- 2
figuréIrremediable, incorrigible.
an incurable romantic
Étymologie
From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.
nom
- 1
One who cannot be cured.
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.
Formes
- pluriel
- incurables
incurable · Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
indebted · Obligated, especially financially.indecent · Offensive to good taste.indeed · Synonym of actually or truly.