incorrigible

[in-kawr-i-juh-buh l, -kor-]

adjective

not corrigible; bad beyond correction or reform: incorrigible behavior; an incorrigible liar.
impervious to constraints or punishment; willful; unruly; uncontrollable: an incorrigible child; incorrigible hair.
firmly fixed; not easily changed: an incorrigible habit.

not easily swayed or influenced: an incorrigible optimist.

noun

a person who is incorrigible.

Origin of incorrigible

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English word from Latin word incorrigibilis. See in-³, corrigible

Related formsin·cor·ri·gi·bil·i·ty, in·cor·ri·gi·ble·ness, nounin·cor·ri·gi·bly, adverb

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Examples from the Web for incorrigibly

Contemporary Examples of incorrigibly

Whereas with San Fran you sort of feel, well, life is so incorrigibly wonderful out there, they don't really need this.
My Annual Super Bowl Rant
Michael Tomasky
February 1, 2013

Historical Examples of incorrigibly

Brought up in the gutter, he was from the first incorrigibly lazy and vicious.
A Zola Dictionary
J. G. Patterson
He was getting as incorrigibly sentimental as a girl in her teens!
Louisiana Lou
William West Winter
I soon heard of him as incorrigibly religious but incorrigibly dry.
St. Cuthbert's
Robert E. Knowles
He is lazy, libertine, and given to lying, but not incorrigibly wicked.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
Various
The man was not an incorrigibly bad doer, but weak and irresolute.
Johnny Ludlow, Third Series
Mrs. Henry Wood

British Dictionary definitions for incorrigibly

incorrigible

adjective

beyond correction, reform, or alteration
firmly rooted; ineradicable
philosophy (of a belief) having the property that whoever honestly believes it cannot be mistakenCompare defeasible

noun

a person or animal that is incorrigible

Derived Formsincorrigibility or incorrigibleness, nounincorrigibly, adverb

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Word Origin and History for incorrigibly

incorrigible

adj.

mid-14c., from Old French incorrigible (mid-14c.), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis "not to be corrected," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + corrigibilis, from corrigere "to correct" (see correct). Related: Incorrigibly. As a noun, from 1746.