incorrigible

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒəb(ə)l/|/ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒɪb(ə)l/    美 /ɪnˈkɔɹɪd͡ʒəb(ə)l/|/ɪnˈkɔɹəd͡ʒəb(ə)l/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An incorrigibly bad person.
    — The incorrigibles in the prison population are either lifers or habitual reoffenders.
形容词 adj.
  1. Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright. not-comparable
    — The construction flaw is incorrigible; any attempt to amend it would cause a complete collapse.
  2. Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain. not-comparable
    — an incorrigible youth
  3. Incurably depraved; not reformable. not-comparable
    — His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution.
  4. Unchangeably established in a belief or habit. not-comparable
    — Gordon Brown may have his grumpy, Granita moments, but as a strategist he is an incorrigible optimist.
  5. Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature. not-comparable
    — The statement "My knee hurts" is incorrigible.
  6. Impossible to cure. archaic,not-comparable
    — It may appear as an epidemic, as a hereditary complaint, or as an obstinate and incorrigible disease again and again recurring.

词形变化

incorrigibles plural

词汇关系

近义词
axiomatic unfalsifiable incurable
反义词
corrigible correctable
衍生词
incorrigibility incorrigibleness incorrigibly
相关词
incorrect

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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