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incorrigible
/ɪnˈkɔɹɪd͡ʒəb(ə)l/
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What does incorrigible mean?
adjective
- Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
- Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
- Incurably depraved; not reformable.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.
- Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature.
- (archaic) Impossible to cure.
noun
- An incorrigibly bad person.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪnˈkɔɹɪd͡ʒəb(ə)l/
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The youth was given up by his teachers as an incorrigible dunce—one of them pronouncing him to be a “stupendous booby.”
The incorrigible nonchalance and laziness of the people alone prevent them from surrounding themselves with all the luxuries of a tropical country.
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“Phil, you’re incorrigible. Well, I love you so much that I can’t make nice, light, congratulatory little speeches. But I’m heart-glad of your happiness.”
In the meantime, although many men of many minds met constantly at our conferences, it was amazing to find the incorrigible good nature which prevailed.
Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master.