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Untreatable vs Incurable - What's the difference?

untreatable | incurable |

As adjectives the difference between untreatable and incurable

is that untreatable is not treatable; impossible to treat 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.

untreatable

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not treatable; impossible to treat.

    • Derived terms

    * untreatability * untreatably

    Anagrams

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    incurable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
  • * Sir J. Stephen
    • They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.

    Derived terms

    * incurable romantic

    Related terms

    * incurability * terminal

    Synonyms

    * uncurable

    Antonyms

    * curable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who cannot be cured.

    • Anagrams

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