\In*cur"a*ble\, a. [F. incurable, L. incurabilis. See
{In-} not, and {Curable}.]
1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or
   medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.
         A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. --Arbuthnot.
2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction;
   irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
         Rancorous and incurable hostility.    --Burke.
         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.

\In*cur"a*ble\, n.
A person diseased beyond cure.