different between healless vs incurable

English

Etymology

From Middle English heleles, equivalent to heal (“health, well-being”) +? -less. Compare healful.

Adjective

healless (comparative more healless, superlative most healless)

1. Incapable of being made whole or well; cureless; incurable; unhealable.
   • 2010, Friedrich Ohly, Linda Archibald, George Steiner, The Damned and the Elect: Guilt in Western Culture:

     A capacity for sin so healless that it makes its man despair from his heart of redemption - that is the true theological way to salvation.

Anagrams

• seashell

English

Etymology

From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n?kj????bl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n?kj???bl/

Adjective

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.

Synonyms

• uncurable

Antonyms

• curable

Derived terms

• incurable romantic, … optimist, … dreamer

Related terms

• incurability
• terminal

Translations

Noun

incurable (plural incurables)

1. One who cannot be cured.

Anagrams

• binuclear

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin incurabilis, attested from 1460.

Adjective

incurable (masculine and feminine plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Synonym: inguarible

   Antonyms: curable, guarible

Related terms

• incurabilitat

References

Further reading

• “incurable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “incurable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “incurable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Late Latin incurabilis.

Adjective

incurable (plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Synonym: inguérissable

   Antonyms: curable, guérissable

Further reading

• “incurable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Adjective

incurable m or f (plural incurables)

1. incurable

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin inc?r?bilis.

Adjective

incurable (plural incurables)

1. incurable

   Antonym: curable

Related terms

• incurabilidad

Further reading

• “incurable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.