incorrigible

FREQ #24923

a. 无药可救的, 积习难改的 n. 不可救药的人

发音

UK /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒəb(ə)l/
AU
UK /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒɪb(ə)l/
US /ɪnˈkɔɹɪd͡ʒəb(ə)l/
US /ɪnˈkɔɹəd͡ʒəb(ə)l/

词形变化

incorrigibles 复数 incorrigibles

别名

encourageable uncorrigible

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An incorrigibly bad individual.

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

adj.
  1. 1.

    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. 2.

    Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.

    an incorrigible youth

  3. 3.

    Incurably depraved; not reformable.

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

  4. 4.

    Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.

  5. 5.

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

    哲学

    The statement "My knee hurts" is incorrigible.

  6. 6.

    Impossible to cure.

    古体

词汇关系

形容词

反义词 1

corrigible

近义相关 6

difficult uncontrollable unmanageable uncorrectable unreformable unregenerate

参见 1

disobedient

词源

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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