Incurable vs Remediless - What's the difference?
incurable | remediless | Synonyms |
Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
* Sir J. Stephen
Not having a remedy; not capable of being remedied.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
*:I driven am to great distresse, / And forced to forgoe th'attempt remedilesse .
*, II.12:
*:As for the rest, this disease is not so easily discovered, except it be altogether extreame and remedilesse ; forasmuch as reason marcheth ever crooked, halting and broken-hipt; and with falshood as with truth; and therefore it is very hard to discover her mistaking and disorder.
Incurable is a synonym of remediless.
As adjectives the difference between incurable and remediless
is that incurable is of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless while remediless is not having a remedy; not capable of being remedied.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.
