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Incorrigible vs Abandoned - What's the difference?

incorrigible | abandoned |

As adjectives the difference between incorrigible and abandoned

is that incorrigible is defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright while abandoned is self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain .

As a noun incorrigible

is an incorrigibly bad individual.

As a verb abandoned is

(abandon).

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

    abandoned

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Self-abandoned, or given up to vice; immoral; extremely wicked, or sinning without restraint; irreclaimably wicked; as, an abandoned villain.
  • No longer maintained by its former owners, residents
  • * (rfdate), Thomson:
  • Free from constraint; uninhibited.
  • * 1919 , :
    • Everything was dirty and shabby. There was no sign of the abandoned luxury that Colonel MacAndrew had so confidently described.
  • (geology) No longer being acted upon by the geologic forces that formed it.

    • Derived terms

    * abandonedness

    Synonyms

    * deserted * forsaken * corrupt * depraved * dissolute * graceless * reprobate * unprincipled * vicious * vile * wicked

    Verb

    (head)
  • (abandon)

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