Definition of "incorrigible" in English

adjective

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. Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.

   • an incorrigible youth

3. Incurably depraved; not reformable.

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

4. Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.

5. (philosophy, of a proposition or belief) Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature.

   • The statement "My knee hurts" is incorrigible.

6. (archaic, of a disease) Impossible to cure.

noun

1. An incorrigibly bad individual.

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