incorrigible
Meanings
Plural: incorrigibles
Adjective
- impervious to correction by punishment
Adj
- Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
- Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
- Incurably depraved; not reformable.
- Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.
- Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature.
- Impossible to cure.
Noun
- An incorrigibly bad individual.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
axiomatic, determined, dyed-in-the-wool, hopeless, incurable, irredeemable, irreparable, reprobate, unalterable, uncorrectable, unfalsifiable, unreformable
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 17
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