incorrigible.
Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
Meaning & usage
Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
The construction flaw is incorrigible; any attempt to amend it would cause a complete collapse.
Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
an incorrigible youth
Incurably depraved; not reformable.
His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution.
Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.
Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature.
The statement "My knee hurts" is incorrigible.
Impossible to cure.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis (“not to be corrected”), from in- (“not”) + corrigere (“to correct”) + -ibilis (“-able”), equivalent to in- + corrigible. Recorded since 1340.
An incorrigibly bad person.
The incorrigibles in the prison population are either lifers or habitual reoffenders.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis (“not to be corrected”), from in- (“not”) + corrigere (“to correct”) + -ibilis (“-able”), equivalent to in- + corrigible. Recorded since 1340.
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