ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsIincorrigible
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incorrigible
Meaning: unable to be corrected, improved, or reformed
incorrigible in a sentence
How incorrigible is used in real sentences:
The incorrigible prankster ignored every warning from the dean.
Years of discipline failed to reform the incorrigible thief.
“Rusk remained incorrigible, shifting from denial to threats even after the geometry placed the legal line twenty yards above his fence.”
— from the passage The Marker on the Slope
Synonyms for incorrigible
Other words for incorrigible — unreformable, intractable and incurable — carry the same meaning.
- unreformable
- intractable
- incurable
Antonyms of incorrigible
Words that mean the opposite of incorrigible:
- reformable
- correctable
- manageable
Where it comes from
From Latin incorrigibilis, meaning 'not able to be corrected.'
Memory hook
IN + CORRIGIBLE means not correctable: an incorrigible habit resists reform.
Practice incorrigible in the app