INCORRIGIBLE (in•cor•ri•gi•ble) adjective incapable of being reformed or not able to be corrected or changed.
An incorrigible bully. An incorrigible Optimist. An incorrigible habit of playing practical jokes.
Explanation
Someone incorrigible seems to be beyond correcting, improving, or changing. When you talk about an incorrigible bully, you're saying they're always going to push other people around.
Even though incorrigible implies a person is kind of hopeless, it's often used as a light-hearted word. When we describe someone as an incorrigible flirt or as an incorrigible gossip, we mean that this is just the way they are, and it would be foolish to try and change them. If someone is just being obnoxious as usual, you could say "You're incorrigible!"
Examples of incorrigible in a sentence
• As for the young man at the railway station, he refused to be nudged into a conversation. He had with him, I discovered, a copy of Death at my Doorstep too. Irrepressible, incorrigible, peerless Khushwant. - The Hindu, 5th April, 2014
• I was driving to work this morning when I heard the incorrigible duo on the morning radio talk show.
• Governments are incorrigible optimists; they believe unabashed self-promotion will yield electoral dividends.
• All who do are either heroes or incorrigible optimists.
• The most compelling portrait in the book is that of Sukanya's grandmother, Ragini Devi, dancer, scholar, and incorrigible rebel.
• I bet she knows her husband is an incorrigible flirt.
**Munna Bhai is always the hospital clown, doing Jaadu Ki Jhapi, and Mammu says he is incorrigible.
Synonyms: Incurable, inveterate, chronic, impenitent etc.
Antonyms: reformable, changeable, corrigible (rarely used) etc.
Memory Aids:
Think incorrigible as incorrectable. Mammu thinks that Aanand Bhai is an incorrigible patient.
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An incorrigible child who has been punished is most likely to do which of the following? a) write an apology letter b) repeat the behavior
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