| 单词 | incorrigible |
| 释义 | incorrigible (once / 3417 pages) adj Someone incorrigible seems to be beyond correcting, improving, or changing. When you talk about an incorrigible bully, you're saying they're always going to push other people around. Even though incorrigible implies a person is kind of hopeless, it's often used as a light-hearted word. When we describe someone as an incorrigible flirt or as an incorrigible gossip, we mean that this is just the way they are, and it would be foolish to try and change them. If someone is just being obnoxious as usual, you could say "You're incorrigible!" WORD FAMILYincorrigible: incorrigibly+/corrigible: incorrigible USAGE EXAMPLESMr Kahneman was introverted, formal and pessimistic, and worked conventional hours; Tversky was extroverted, informal and incorrigibly optimistic, keeping the hours of a bat. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) In the near term, some Democrats are vowing massive resistance to anything Mr. Trump proposes, saying he is an incorrigible racist. Washington Times(Nov 14, 2016) Louis MacNeice got it when he wrote: “World is crazier and more of it than we think / Incorrigibly plural.” The Guardian(Nov 13, 2016) adj impervious to correction by punishment Syn|Ant unreformable, unregenerate unrepentant and incapable of being reformed uncontrollable, uncorrectable, unmanageableincapable of being controlled or managed disobedientnot obeying or complying with commands of those in authority corrigible capable of being corrected or set right amendable, correctablecapable of being corrected by additions improvablesusceptible of improvement redeemable, reformablesusceptible to improvement or reform |
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