Hopeless vs Incurable - What's the difference?
hopeless | incurable | Related terms |
Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
* (William Shakespeare)
*, chapter=15
, title= Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
Without talent, not skilled
Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
* Sir J. Stephen
Hopeless is a related term of incurable.
As adjectives the difference between hopeless and incurable
is that hopeless is without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive 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.hopeless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I am a woman, friendless, hopeless .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
- He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "hopeless" is often applied: case, situation, romantic, love, cause, person, despair, life, undertaking, alcoholic, man, endeavor, place, pain, agony, project.Synonyms
* desperateAntonyms
* hopefulReferences
* * *incurable
English
Adjective
(-)- They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.
