Incorrigible

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Incapable of being corrected or reformed: an incorrigible criminal.
  • adj. Firmly rooted; ineradicable: incorrigible faults.
  • adj. Difficult or impossible to control or manage: an incorrigible, spoiled child.
  • n. One that cannot be corrected or reformed.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
  • adj. incurably depraved; not reformable.
  • adj. impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
  • adj. unmanageable.
  • adj. determined, unalterable, hence impossible to improve upon.
  • adj. incurable.
  • n. An incorrigibly bad individual
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable.
  • n. One who is incorrigible; a person whose persistent bad behavior cannot be changed; especially, a hardened criminal.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Incapable of being corrected or amended.
  • Bad beyond correction or reform; irreclaimable: as, an incorrigible sinner or drunkard.
  • Synonyms Incurable, hopeless, irrecoverable, irreclaimable; graceless, shameless, hardened.
  • n. One who is incapable of amendment or reform.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. impervious to correction by punishment
    • Equivalent
    unreformable    unmanageable    uncontrollable    unregenerate    uncorrectable   
    Antonym
    corrigible   
    Form
    incorrigibly    incorrigibility   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    irreclaimable    abandoned    recidivous    irreparable    irredeemable   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    inveterate    incurable    deprave    arrant    heartless   
     
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