uncurable
Cannot be healed
Uncurable means not able to be cured or healed.
The word is a less common variant of incurable, carrying the same meaning: an uncurable disease, uncurable optimism.
Both forms work, but incurable appears far more often in medical and figurative contexts.
Cannot be healed
- terminalAt the endpoint
- chronicPersisting over time
- inoperableCannot be repaired
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
degenerative · palliative · hospice · end-of-life · fatal · metastatic · remission · relapse
Cannot be undone
- irreparableCannot be fixed
- unfixableCannot be mended
- permanentFixed without end
- immutableIncapable of being changed
unalterable · unchangeable · indelible · lasting · enduring · intractable · unrecoverable · unsalvageable
Beyond possibility of success
- futileIncapable of producing results
- bleakDreary and without cheer
- doomedDestined for destruction
- desperateDriven by urgent need
resignation · helpless · fatalism · defeat · surrender · lost cause · inevitable · grim
Continuing despite difficulty
- unrelentingRefusing to let up
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- relentlessContinuing without pause
- unabatingNot decreasing in intensity
ceaseless · constant · continual · incessant · interminable · unending · perpetual · unstoppable
untreatable
Cannot be healed
- terminalAt the endpoint
- chronicPersisting over time
- inoperableCannot be repaired
progressive · degenerative · palliative · hospice · end-of-life · fatal · metastatic · remission · relapse · prognosis
irreversible
Cannot be undone
- irreparableCannot be fixed
- unfixableCannot be mended
- permanentFixed without end
immutable · unalterable · unchangeable · indelible · lasting · enduring · intractable · unrecoverable · unsalvageable · unrectifiable
hopeless
Beyond possibility of success
desperate · resignation · helpless · fatalism · defeat · surrender · lost cause · inevitable · grim · dismal
persistent
Continuing despite difficulty
- unrelentingRefusing to let up
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- relentlessContinuing without pause
unabating · ceaseless · constant · continual · incessant · interminable · unending · perpetual · unstoppable · unremitting
uncurablecurable
Able to be healed
treatable · healable · remediable · correctable · fixable
uncurablerecoverable
Able to be regained
temporary · transient · survivable · reversible · beatable
cure, cured, curing, cures, curable, incurable, curate, curator, curative