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incurable

 adjective
     
Related topics: Illness and Disability
in‧cur‧a‧ble
1MI impossible to cure [≠ curable]
incurable disease/illness/condition
She has a rare, incurable disease.
2 impossible to change:
an incurable optimist
—incurably adverb:
incurably romantic
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