Incorrigible - English meaning

noun

An advertisement.

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The latest television lager ad

noun

Short for advantage.

prefix

Denoting motion or direction to.

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Advance

adjective

(of an illness) persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.

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Chronic bronchitis

adjective

(esp. of a disease or something bad) continuing for a long time

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Mr. george is resigning because of chronic heart disease., there is a chronic shortage of teachers.…

adjective

(especially of a disease or something bad) continuing for a long time

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Chronic condition the study looks at adults with chronic conditions such as asthma and diabetes., c…

adjective

(of a person) firmly established in a particular habit, belief, or way of life and unlikely to change their ways.

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A confirmed bachelor

verb

Establish the truth or correctness of (something previously believed or suspected to be the case).

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If these fears are confirmed, the outlook for the economy will be dire

adjective

Firmly fixed in a particular habit or way of life and unlikely to change

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A confirmed bachelor

noun

A person who strongly opposes change or who continues to support something in spite of opposition.

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A diehard yankees fan

adjective

Unwilling to change or give up your ideas or ways of behaving, even when there are good reasons to do so

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A diehard conservative

adjective

Done constantly or as a habit.

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His habitual use of heroin

adjective

Usual or repeated

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Longer prison sentences will help keep habitual criminals off the streets., she was habitually late.

adjective

Having become or been made hard or harder.

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Hardened steel

verb

Make or become hard or harder.

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Wait for the glue to harden

adjective

Having developed a way of dealing with bad experiences so that they no longer upset you

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The judge called him a hardened criminal (= one who will not stop his criminal activity).

adjective

Feeling or causing despair.

Usage examples:

Jess looked at him in mute hopeless appeal

adjective

Without hope

Usage examples:

We tried to save the building, but it was a hopeless task (= it could not succeed).

adjective

(of a sick person or a disease) not able to be cured.

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Even when the sick are incurable they are never untreatable

noun

A person who cannot be cured.

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The hospital - which has more than 2,000 fundraisers - was first opened as a cancer pavilion and ho…

adjective

Not able to be cured

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Before antibiotics the disease was incurable., marjorie is an incurable optimist.

adjective

Hard to control or deal with.

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Intractable economic problems

adjective

Difficult or impossible to manage or control

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Intractable problems, an intractable child

adjective

Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change.

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An inveterate gambler

adjective

Done as a habit and not likely to change

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An inveterate liar

adjective

Not able to be saved, improved, or corrected.

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So many irredeemable mistakes have been made

adjective

Impossible to correct, improve, or change

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An irredeemable letter cannot be cancelled., they may be irredeemable, so that although they can be…

adjective

(chiefly of religious dogma) unable to be revised or altered.

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Of course, there is that little problem of irreformable dogma.

adjective

Having existed for a long time

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It’s been our long-standing policy not to allow pets at the hotel.

adjective

Unable to be reformed.

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He came to regard parliament as unreformable