Incorrigible

a.	1.	Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error.
n.	1.	One who is incorrigible; a person whose persistent bad behavior cannot be changed; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles; incorrigible and disruptive children need to be placed in a separate classroom.

Adj.

1.

incorrigible - impervious to correction by punishment Antonyms: corrigible - capable of being corrected or set right; "a corrigible defect"; "a corrigible prisoner"

bad, beyond control, beyond recall, beyond remedy, breachy, chronic, confirmed, contumacious, cureless, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, defiant, dyed-in-the-wool, established, fast, fixed, fractious, gone, graceless, habitual, hardened, hopeless, immedicable, implanted, inculcated, incurable, indocile, indomitable, infixed, inflexible, ingrained, inoperable, instilled, insuppressible, intractable, inveterate, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irrepressible, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, long-established, lost, naughty, obdurate, obstreperous, out of hand, past hope, past praying for, recalcitrant, refractory, remediless, resistant, resisting, restive, rooted, ruined, set, settled, settled in habit, shrewish, shriftless, sinful, stubborn, terminal, thorough, unalterable, unbiddable, unchangeable, uncontrollable, undone, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmitigable, unmoldable, unredeemable, unregenerate, unrelievable, unruly, unsalvable, unsalvageable, unsubmissive, villainous, wicked, wild

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