insanable

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adjective

Not capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.

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sanable
OriginLatin īnsānābilis →
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Meanings

adjectiveinsanable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.

    […] 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—

    1921, Frank Moore Colby, The Margin of Hesitation, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC, page 132

    Synonyms: sanable

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveNot capable of being healed, incurable, irremediable.

Similar
sanable

Origin

  1. Latinīnsānābilis
  2. Englishinsanable

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

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APA

insanable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insanable

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “insanable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/insanable.

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