incurable

CEFRC1

/ˌɪnˈkjʊəɹəbl/

adjective

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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That disease is incurable.
an incurable romantic
They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.

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They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.
1854, James Stephen, On Desultory and Systematic Reading
Heatherlegh, the Doctor, kept, in addition to his regular practice, a hospital on his private account — an arrangement of loose-boxes for Incurables, his friends called it — but it was really a sort of fitting-up shed for craft that had been damaged by stress of weather.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 7

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From Old French incurable, from Late Latin incurabilis.