insanable

English

Etymology

From Latin īnsānābilis. Compare Old French insanable. See in- (not) + sanable.

Adjective

insanable (comparative more insanable, superlative most insanable)

  1. Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.
    Synonym: sanable
    • 1921, Frank Moore Colby, The Margin of Hesitation, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 132:
      [] by the Cirrhæan spikes, by the boiled head of my own baby served in Egyptian vinegar, I curse the whole insanable cacoëthical cohort of scriptitating—

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Adjective

insanable m or f (masculine and feminine plural insanables)

  1. insanable; uncurable

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