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单词 corrigible
释义
corrigible
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adj

Something that can be fixed is corrigible. When you have a chance to go back and fix the mistakes on a math test, any errors you make are corrigible.
Use the adjective corrigible when you want to emphasize that something can be improved or corrected. You might argue that even a country's constitution is corrigible, or hope that your physics midterm is corrigible. A much more common word is incorrigible, which means hopeless or not fixable, but is most often used to describe someone's personality. The Latin corrigere, "to put straight or set right," is the root of both corrigible and incorrigible.
WORD FAMILY
corrigible: incorrigible+/incorrigible: incorrigibly
USAGE EXAMPLES
These are failures that are entirely corrigible if the job seeker makes the effort to become self-aware and improve his or her odds of success.
US News(Nov 09, 2015)
The power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon), Curiosities of Medical Experience(2012)
I heartily hope that if you have been incommoded it is already over, and for a corrigible cause.
James, Henry, The Letters of Henry James (volume...(2012)
adj capable of being corrected or set right
a corrigible defect
a corrigible prisoner
Syn|Ant
amendable, correctable
capable of being corrected by additions
improvable
susceptible of improvement
redeemable, reformable
susceptible to improvement or reform
incorrigible
impervious to correction by punishment
unreformable, unregenerate
unrepentant and incapable of being reformed
uncontrollable, uncorrectable, unmanageable
incapable of being controlled or managed
disobedient
not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority
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