Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Incurable / Untreatable: Describes a disease, illness, or condition for which there is no cure or effective treatment.
   • Hopeless / Irremediable: Describes a situation, problem, or state that is beyond remedy, solution, or hope of improvement.

2. Adjective (in fixed expressions):

   • Impossible / Without means: Used to express that something is impossible to achieve or that one is without resources or recourse.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Căn bệnh ở giai đoạn cuối đã vô phương cứu chữa. (The terminal illness was incurable.)
  • Tình thế lúc đó thực sự vô phương. (The situation at that time was truly hopeless.)
  • Hắn ta đã sa vào một vòng xoáy vô phương thoát. (He fell into an inescapable spiral.)

Advanced Usage

• "vô phương cứu chữa": incurable; beyond remedy (most common collocation).

  • Sự thù hận của họ dường như vô phương cứu chữa. (Their hatred seems irremediable.)

• "vô phương xoay xở": to have no way to manage; to be unable to cope.

  • Trước khó khăn chồng chất, anh ấy cảm thấy vô phương xoay xở. (Faced with mounting difficulties, he felt he had no way to cope.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bất trị (adj): incurable, untreatable (often for diseases or behavior).

  • Một căn bệnh bất trị. (An incurable disease.)

• Vô vọng (adj): hopeless, desperate.

  • Một nỗ lực vô vọng. (A hopeless effort.)

Synonyms

• Incurable: not able to be cured.
• Irremediable: impossible to remedy or correct.
• Hopeless: having no hope; offering no prospect of improvement.

Related Idioms

• Vô phương bát kế: to be at the end of one's tether; to have exhausted all possible plans and resources.
  • Đến bước đường cùng, họ rơi vào cảnh vô phương bát kế. (At the end of the road, they found themselves at their wits' end.)