different between incurable vs desperate

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.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?sp?r?tus, past participle of d?sp?r? (“to be without hope”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?sp(?)??t/

Adjective

desperate (comparative more desperate, superlative most desperate)

1. In dire need of something.

   I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.

2. Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.

3. Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.

4. Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.

5. Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
6. Extremely intense.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Noun

desperate (plural desperates)

1. A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, addict, etc.

Derived terms

• desperation

Related terms

• despair
• desperado

Translations

Anagrams

• departees

Danish

Adjective

desperate

1. plural and definite singular attributive of desperat

Latin

Verb

d?sp?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?sp?r?

References

• desperate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• desperate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

desperate

1. definite singular of desperat
2. plural of desperat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

desperate

1. definite singular of desperat
2. plural of desperat