What does "incurable" mean?

Incurable: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A person diseased beyond cure.

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