incorrigible
adjEtymology
From Middle English incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis (“not to be corrected”), from in- (“not”) + corrigere (“to correct”) + -ibilis (“-able”), equivalent to in- + corrigible. Recorded since 1340.
- derived from incorrigibilis
- derived from incorrigible
- inherited from incorrigible
Definitions
Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
- The construction flaw is incorrigible; any attempt to amend it would cause a complete collapse.
Unmanageable
Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
- an incorrigible youth
Incurably depraved
Incurably depraved; not reformable.
- His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution.
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Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.
- Gordon Brown may have his grumpy, Granita moments, but as a strategist he is an incorrigible optimist.
Intrinsically incapable of being corrected
Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature.
- The statement "My knee hurts" is incorrigible.
Impossible to cure.
- It may appear as an epidemic, as a hereditary complaint, or as an obstinate and incorrigible disease again and again recurring.
An incorrigibly bad individual.
- The incorrigibles in the prison population are either lifers or habitual reoffenders.
The neighborhood
- synonymaxiomaticintrinsically uncorrectable
- synonymunfalsifiableintrinsically uncorrectable
- synonymincurableof a disease
- antonymcorrigible
- antonymcorrectable
- neighborincorrect
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for incorrigible. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA