incorrigible

Meanings

Adjective

• Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
• Incurably depraved; not reformable.
• Impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
• Unmanageable.
• Determined, unalterable, hence impossible to improve upon.
• Incurable.

Noun

• An incorrigibly bad individual.

Related

Similar words

• irredeemable
• irreparable
• uncorrectable

Opposite words

• corrigible

Origin

• From Middle English incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis ("not to be corrected"), from in- + corrigō + -ibilis. Recorded since 1340.