incorrigible

IPA(Pronunciation)

not-comparable archaic

Japanese Meaning

修正不可能な / 改心不可能な / 更生不可能な / 矯正不可能な / 手に負えない

The engineer declared the machine incorrigible after repeated repairs failed to fix its fundamental defects.

エンジニアは、何度修理しても根本的な欠陥を直すことができないとして、その機械は手の施しようがないと宣言した。

Sense（1）

Defective and impossible to materially correct or set aright.

The construction flaw is incorrigible; any attempt to amend it would cause a complete collapse.

Sense（2）

Incurably depraved; not reformable.

His dark soul was too incorrigible to repent, even at his execution.

Sense（3）

Impervious to correction by punishment or pain.

Sense（4）

Unmanageable.

Gordon Brown may have his grumpy, Granita moments, but as a strategist he is an incorrigible optimist.

Sense（5）

Determined, unalterable, hence impossible to improve upon.

The laws of nature and mathematics are incorrigible.

Sense（6）

(archaic) Incurable.