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Incorrigible vs Encourageable - What's the difference?

incorrigible | encourageable |

As adjectives the difference between encourageable and incorrigible

is that encourageable is able to be encouraged; suggestible while incorrigible is defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.

As a noun incorrigible is

an incorrigibly bad individual.

incorrigible

English

Adjective

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  • 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

    encourageable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Able to be encouraged; suggestible.
  • * 1887 , William Douglas Hamilton (editor), Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I , Eyre and Spottiswoode, volume 18, page 425:
    • Pray that they may be paid by the captain of the ship or the Treasurer of the Navy the said encourageable allowance of wages as well as others, that they may the more cheerfully serve the King, Parliament, and their country.
  • * 1988 , Jeremy Griffith, Free'', ''The End of the Human Condition , Centre for Humanity’s Adulthood, ISBN 0731604954, page 140:
    • The ‘trick’ in love-indoctrination was that while maternalism was genetically selfish and therefore genetically encourageable , from an observing mind’s point of view it was selfless behaviour.
  • * 2004 , Hisham M. Ramadan, Reconstructing Jury Instructions in Homicide Offenses'', ''Rethinking Homicide Law'', University Press of America, ISBN 0761828532, volume 17, page 71, ''Hein's Legal Theses and Dissertations , issue 329:
    • In some cases, as in the Young case, this penal policy would discourage individuals from appropriate and encourageable conduct.
  • * 2005 , Lisa Scherff (editor), Thirteen Years of School'', ''What Students Really Think , R&L Education, ISBN 1578862000, illustrated, page 165:
    • Teachers are so fun, happy, and encourageable this year.