Incorrigible Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭn-kôrĭ-jə-bəl, -kŏr-
Impervious to correction by punishment
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. hopeless
  2. irreparable
  3. intractable
  4. incurable
  5. hardened
  6. uncorrectable
  7. ineradicable
  8. rooted
  9. unmanageable
  10. unreformed
Antonyms:
  1. corrigible
Bad, hopeless
(Adjective)
Antonyms:
  1. repentant
  2. good
  3. nice
  4. manageable
  5. reformable
  6. obedient

Words Related to Incorrigible

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Incorrigible Sentence Examples

  • Then her teacher calls her an incorrigible little sermonizer, and she laughs at herself.

  • Incorrigible offenders on these matters were " left " to the secular power, to be corrected with due " animadversion."

  • Robert the Strong, however, though many times victorious over the incorrigible pirates, was killed by them in a fight at Brissarthe (866).

  • His temper and life seem to have been remarkably free from all that was jarring, jealous and fretful; unless, indeed, we are to accept as true the account of his wife's character which represents her as having been no fit mate for him, but an incorrigible shrew and skinflint.

  • The Euclidean paradigm of mathematics as an objective, absolute, incorrigible and rigidly hierarchical body of knowledge is increasingly under question.

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