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Incorrigible

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Adjective

1. incorrigible

impervious to correction by punishment

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Incorrigible

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adjective
1. 
beyond correction, reform, or alteration
2. 
firmly rooted; ineradicable
3. philosophy
(of a belief) having the property that whoever honestly believes it cannot be mistaken
Compare defeasible
noun
4. 
a person or animal that is incorrigible

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Incorrigible

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adjective
1. 
not corrigible; that cannot be corrected, improved, or reformed, esp. because firmly established, as a habit, or because set in bad habits, as a child
noun
2. 
an incorrigible person

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Incorrigible

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adj.
1. Incapable of being corrected or reformed: an incorrigible criminal.
2. Firmly rooted; ineradicable: incorrigible faults.
3. Difficult or impossible to control or manage: an incorrigible, spoiled child.
n.
One that cannot be corrected or reformed.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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