Incurable

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A person diseased beyond cure.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease. A scirrh is not absolutely incurable. Arbuthnot.

2. 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.

Synonyms: Irremediable; remediless; irrecoverable; irretrievable; irreparable; hopeless.