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incorrigible
[in-kawr-i-juh-buhl, -kor-]
adjective
not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform.
incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
impervious to constraints or punishment; willful; unruly; uncontrollable.
an incorrigible child; incorrigible hair.
firmly fixed; not easily changed.
an incorrigible habit.
not easily swayed or influenced.
an incorrigible optimist.
noun
a person who is incorrigible.
incorrigible
/ ɪˈɒɪəə /
adjective
beyond correction, reform, or alteration
firmly rooted; ineradicable
philosophy (of a belief) having the property that whoever honestly believes it cannot be mistaken Compare defeasible
noun
a person or animal that is incorrigible
Other Word Forms
- incorrigibility noun
- incorrigibleness noun
- incorrigibly adverb
- ˌǰˈٲ noun
- ˈǰ adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of incorrigible1
Example Sentences
Here, her incorrigible Eleanor barks at a grocery store clerk to fetch the kosher pickles and cackles with glee informing her grandson that his mother’s high school nickname was the “class mattress.”
As it happens, sending astronauts to the moon and Mars ranked at the bottom of the list of priorities — something that probably won’t affect Musk’s incorrigible enthusiasm for the red planet.
The Times, taking the opposite line, reported that Glenn and another student, Brendon Barr, were adjudged “incorrigible” and clocked in a stockade as a last resort.
Trump’s parents shipped their incorrigible second son off to military school 90 minutes outside New York City just after his 13th birthday.
But they also gave long, loud and expletive-ridden voice to their belief that the whole incident proved, once again, that the Premier League was incorrigibly corrupt.
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