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[ in-kawr-i-juh-buhl, -kor- ] / ɪnˈkɔr ɪ dʒə bəl, -ˈkɒr- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR incorrigible ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot 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. nouna person who is incorrigible. Origin of incorrigibleFirst recorded in 1300–50; Middle English word from Latin word incorrigibilis.See in-3, corrigible OTHER WORDS FROM incorrigiblein·cor·ri·gi·bil·i·ty, in·cor·ri·gi·ble·ness, nounin·cor·ri·gi·bly, adverbWords nearby incorrigiblein corpore, incorporeal, incorporeity, incorr., incorrect, incorrigible, incorrupt, incorruptible, incorruption, Incoterms, incr. Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for incorrigibleBut there were also many times when either Palmer or Weaver could have written the other off as an incorrigible pain in the ass. Will the Real Jim Palmer Please Stand Up|Tom Boswell|September 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST And Anthony Hopkins as Noah's hammy 969-year-old grandpa, Methuselah, who was apparently an incorrigible berry addict. ‘Noah’ Review: An Ambitious, Flawed Biblical Tale That You Have to See|Andrew Romano|March 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST “I gotta tell you, you guys in the press are incorrigible,” the president said. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s Lovefest on ‘60 Minutes’|Lauren Ashburn|January 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST Despite his nebbishy demeanor, the Senate majority leader is an incorrigible junkyard dog. Why Harry Reid’s Mormon Slur May Be Good for the Church|Michelle Cottle|September 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST
No one wins when the political field is populated exclusively by the incorrigible right and the bemused left. Resolved: This is Not the Road to a Two-State Solution|Elisheva Goldberg|June 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST No sneers, if you please, gentlemen bachelors of the incorrigible class; no 'pshaws!' The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 4, October 1843|Various She regarded him with a glance which gave him up as incorrigible, and half turned away her head. Love in a Cloud|Arlo Bates But our incorrigible habit of confusing the two things together is not without justification, or at least excuse. Supply and Demand|Hubert D. Henderson I have now and then made efforts to reclaim the old Party, but have long considered her incorrigible. Julia Ward Howe|Laura E. Richards Pages of consummate realism are interwoven with the most fantastical incidents worthy only of the most incorrigible romantics. Essays on Russian Novelists|William Lyon Phelps
British Dictionary definitions for incorrigible
adjectivebeyond correction, reform, or alteration firmly rooted; ineradicable philosophy (of a belief) having the property that whoever honestly believes it cannot be mistakenCompare defeasible nouna person or animal that is incorrigible Derived forms of incorrigibleincorrigibility or incorrigibleness, nounincorrigibly, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to incorrigiblehardened, abandoned, beastly, incurable, intractable, inveterate, irreparable, loser, useless, wicked, irredeemable, recidivous, unreformed |