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Definition of incurable : 1. A person diseased beyond cure.
2. Not admitting or capable of remedy or correction; irremediable; remediless; as, incurable evils.
3. Not capable of being cured; beyond the power of skill or medicine to remedy; as, an incurable disease.

Synonyms:

inalterable, deadly, hope, unalterable, cureless, irremediable, serious, hopeless, irreparable

Usage examples:

• I found her at home, a wretched shadow of her old self, listless, and in a settled melancholy, which the doctors said was incurable. - "The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I", William James Stillman.
• He assured him that he did not have incurable hardening of the liver and expressed, as his earnest belief, that there were places where the help he needed could be given- that there was hope. - "Our Nervous Friends Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness", Robert S. Carroll.
• Much evil has already been done in the settlement, but it is not yet too late to apply the remedy; the malady which threatens the existence of the colony has not yet attained to an incurable height, and if the proper measures are adopted, prosperity and happiness may yet be seen, where adversity and apprehension are at present discovered; and the seeds of a new and powerful nation may not be doomed to perish, before they have scarcely broken the ground which was intended for the scene of their growth and expansion. - "The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)", David Dickinson Mann.