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aright | incorrigible |

As an adverb aright

is rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.

As a verb aright

is to make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.

As an adjective incorrigible is

defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.

As a noun incorrigible is

an incorrigibly bad individual.

aright

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
  • *, I.56:
    • it is not easie we should so often settle our minds in so regular, so reformed, and so devout a seat, where indeed it ought to be, to pray aright and effectually: otherwise our praiers are not only vaine and unprofitable, but vicious.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) arighten, .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
  • * 2003 , John Beebe, Terror, Violence, and the Impulse to Destroy :
    • But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself.
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    incorrigible

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.
    • ''The construction flaw is incorrigible ; any attempt to amend it would cause a complete collapse.
  • incurably depraved; not reformable.
    • ''His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution.
  • impervious to correction by punishment or pain.
    • ''The imp is incorrigible : his bottom is still red from his last spanking when he plans the next prank.
  • unmanageable.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2006 , date=December 7 , author=Michael White , title=Breaking up is hard to do, even at the Treasury , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Gordon Brown may have his grumpy, Granita moments, but as a strategist he is an incorrigible optimist.}}
  • determined, unalterable, hence impossible to improve upon.
    • ''The laws of nature and mathematics are incorrigible .
  • (archaic) incurable.

    • Quotations

    Synonyms

    (checksyns) * irredeemable * irreparable * uncorrectable

    Antonyms

    * corrigible

    Derived terms

    * incorrigibility * incorrigibly

    Related terms

    * incorrect

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incorrigibly bad individual
    • ''The incorrigibles in the prison population are either lifers or habitual reoffenders