INCURABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incurably mean? 

• INCURABLY (adverb)
  The adverb INCURABLY has 2 senses:

1. to an incurable degree

2. in a manner impossible to cure

  Familiarity information: INCURABLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCURABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an incurable degree

Context example:

she was incurably optimistic

Pertainym:

incurable (unalterable in disposition or habits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a manner impossible to cure

Context example:

he is incurably ill

Pertainym:

incurable (incapable of being cured)

 Context examples 

Her manner was incurably gentle; and she was not aware how much it concealed the sternness of her purpose.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He was a man of good family and of great ability, but of incurably vicious habits, who had by an ingenious system of fraud obtained huge sums of money from the leading London merchants.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was incurably dishonest.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)