Meaning

6 senses
  1. (not comparable)Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.

    The construction flaw is incorrigible; any attempt to amend it would cause a complete collapse.

    unverbesserbar, unverbesserlich

    неисправи́мыйneispravímyj

  2. (not comparable)Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.

    an incorrigible youth

    unverbesserlich

    impervious to correction by punishment

  3. (not comparable)Incurably depraved; not reformable.

    His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution.

    unverbesserlich

    неизлечи́мыйneizlečímyj

  4. (not comparable)Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.

  5. (not comparable)Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature.

    The statement "My knee hurts" is incorrigible.

  6. (archaic, not comparable)Impossible to cure.

    difficult or impossible to manage or control

Examples

14 sentences
  1. Tom is incorrigible.

    ruТом неисправим.

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  2. They concluded that Tom is an incorrigible person.

    Вони дійшли висновку, що Том - людина невиправна.

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  3. You are really incorrigible!

    Ти дійсно невиправний.

    ruТы действительно неисправим!

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  4. I think that Tom is incorrigible.

    ruПо-моему, Том неисправим.

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  5. He has the reputation of being an incorrigible liar.

    ruУ него репутация неисправимого лжеца.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
defective and materially impossible to correct or set aright:
incurable:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
defective and materially impossible to correct or set aright:
determined, unalterable:

Origin

From Middle English incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly 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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