incorrigible

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.

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

2. sıfat Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.

   “an incorrigible youth”

3. sıfat Incurably depraved; not reformable.

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

4. sıfat Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.

   “Gordon Brown may have his grumpy, Granita moments, but as a strategist he is an incorrigible optimist.”

5. sıfat Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature.

   “The statement "My knee hurts" is incorrigible.”

6. sıfat Impossible to cure.

   “It may appear as an epidemic, as a hereditary complaint, or as an obstinate and incorrigible disease again and again recurring.”

7. isim An incorrigibly bad person.

   “The incorrigibles in the prison population are either lifers or habitual reoffenders.”