Dangerous vs Incurable - What's the difference?
dangerous | incurable | Related terms |
Full of danger.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods
In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
(lb) Hard to suit; difficult to please.
*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
*:My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; / My lord to me is hard and dangerous .
(lb) Reserved; not affable.
*(Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
*:Of his speech dangerous
Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
* Sir J. Stephen
Dangerous is a related term of incurable.
As adjectives the difference between dangerous and incurable
is that dangerous is full of danger while incurable is of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.As a noun incurable is
one who cannot be cured.dangerous
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Forby. Bartlett.
Synonyms
(full of danger) * hazardous * perilous * risky * unsafe * See alsoAntonyms
* (full of danger) safeAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordsincurable
English
Adjective
(-)- They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.
