Incurable vs Irredeemable - What's the difference?
incurable | irredeemable |
Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
* Sir J. Stephen
Not redeemable; not able to be restored, recovered, revoked, or escaped.
* 1908 , :
* 1909 , , True Tilda , ch. 2:
Not able to be cancelled by a payment or converted to another form of currency or financial instrument, especially one considered more secure or reliable.
* 1776 , , The Wealth of Nations , ch. 3:
* 2005 Oct. 31, James Grant, "
As adjectives the difference between incurable and irredeemable
is that incurable is of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless while irredeemable is not redeemable; not able to be restored, recovered, revoked, or escaped.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
* ----irredeemable
English
Adjective
(head)- It wavered an instant—then there was a heartrending crash—and the canary-coloured cart, their pride and their joy, lay on its side in the ditch, an irredeemable wreck.
- She was horribly frightened; but she had pledged her word now, and it was irredeemable .
- The subscribers to a new loan, who mean generally to sell their subscription as soon as possible, prefer greatly a perpetual annuity, redeemable by parliament, to an irredeemable annuity, for a long term of years, of only equal amount.
O Sage! O Confidence Man!," Forbes (retrieved 17 Aug 2010):
- Investors have always had to trust somebody or something. . . . But they have not always had to make a leap of faith about a nation's irredeemable paper currency. Up until Aug. 15, 1971 the dollar was exchangeable into gold at the rate of $35 to the ounce.