incorrigible
incorrigible is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 32 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error. "Incorrigible fools." Dryden.
- 2.One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- benefit
- clergy
- conscience
- contrition
- die
- game
- graceless
- hard
- harden
- hardened
- hardness
- heart
- impenitence
- impenitent
- induration
- irreclaimable
- irrepentance
- lack
- lost
- make
- obduracy
- obdurate
- recusant
- relentless
- remorseless
- seared
- sign
- steel
- the
- unregenerate
- without
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is incorrigible.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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