Incurable vs Desperate - What's the difference?
incurable | desperate | Related terms |
Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
* Sir J. Stephen
Being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.
* (William Shakespeare)
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, title= Without regard to danger or safety; reckless; furious.
* Macaulay
Beyond hope; causing despair; extremely perilous; irretrievable.
Extreme, in a bad sense; outrageous.
* (William Shakespeare)
* Macaulay
Extremely intense.
Incurable is a related term of desperate.
As adjectives the difference between incurable and desperate
is that incurable is of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless while desperate is being filled with, or in a state of despair; hopeless.As a noun incurable
is one who cannot be cured.incurable
English
Adjective
(-)- They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.
Derived terms
* incurable romanticSynonyms
* uncurableAntonyms
* curableAnagrams
* ----desperate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Since his exile she hath despised me most, / Forsworn my company and rail'd at me, / That I am desperate of obtaining her.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
- desperate expedients
- a desperate offendress against nature
- the most desperate of reprobates