incorrigible

Speech parts

1. incorrigible - Noun

2. incorrigible - Adjective

3. incorrigible - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error.

One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

irreparable irredeemable uncorrectable naughty abandoned bad wild chronic hardened irreversible wicked sinful hopeless stubborn habitual
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Antonyms

corrigible good modest nice decent joyful
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Examples

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. A. E. Housman

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. Albert Einstein

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols --it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. William Hazlitt

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do. Joe Satriani

How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in terms of "punishment" for a minute and think in terms of safeguarding innocent people from incorrigible murderers. Jesse Ventura

Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible. François de La Rochefoucauld

Close letter words and terms

incorrespondency incorresponding incorrigibility incorrigibleness incorrigibly incorrodible