in-sānābilis, e, adj., that cannot be cured or healed, incurable (class.). Lit.: morbus, Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 3: vulnus, Col. 7, 5, 13: venenum, Plin. 7, 15, 13, § 64.

— Trop., irretrievable, without remedy, hopeless: contumeliae, Cic. Or. 26, 89: ingenium, Liv. 1, 28, 9: nihil insanabilius, id. 28, 25, 7: insanabili leto perire, Plin. 24, 17, 100, § 157: dolor, Quint. 6 prooem. § 6: caput insanabile tribus Anticyris, Hor. A. P. 300: scribendi cacoethes, Juv. 7, 51.

—Adv.: insānābiliter, incurably, Cael. Aur. Tard. 5, 2, 45: aeger, Marcell. et Faust. ap. Libr. Prec. ad Imp. p. 19 Sirmond.