Irretrievable vs Incurable - What's the difference?
irretrievable | incurable | Synonyms |
Of an illness, condition, etc, that is unable to be cured; healless.
* Sir J. Stephen
As adjectives the difference between irretrievable and incurable
is that irretrievable is not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable; as, an irretrievable loss 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.incurable
English
Adjective
(-)- They were labouring under a profound, and, as it might have seemed, an almost incurable ignorance.
