incorrigible

/ɪnˈkɔrɪdʒɪbəl/

/ɪnˈkɔrɪdʒɪbəl/

Other forms: incorrigibly

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!"

Definitions of incorrigible

1. adjective

   impervious to correction by punishment
   synonyms:

   unreformable, unregenerate

   unrepentant and incapable of being reformed

   uncontrollable, uncorrectable, unmanageable

   incapable of being controlled or managed

   disobedient

   not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority

   antonyms:

   corrigible

   capable of being corrected or set right

   amendable, correctable

   capable of being corrected by additions

   improvable

   susceptible of improvement

   redeemable, reformable

   susceptible to improvement or reform