Incorrigibleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 incorrigible, from Middle French incorrigible (1334), or directly from Latin incorrigibilis (“not to be corrected”), from in- (“not”) +‎ corrigere (“to correct”) +‎ -ibilis (“-able”), equivalent to in- +‎ corrigible. Recorded since 1340.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒəb(ə)l/, /ɪnˈkɒɹɪdʒɪb(ə)l/
• (General American) IPA: /ɪnˈkɔɹɪd͡ʒəb(ə)l/, /ɪnˈkɔɹəd͡ʒəb(ə)l/
• ハイフネーション: in‧cor‧ri‧gi‧ble

形容詞

incorrigible (not comparable)

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.

2. Unmanageable; impervious to correction by punishment or pain.

   an incorrigible youth

3. Incurably depraved; not reformable.

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

4. Unchangeably established in a belief or habit.
   • 2006 December 7, Michael White, “Breaking up is hard to do, even at the Treasury”, in The Guardian‎, London:

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

5. (philosophy, of a proposition or belief) Intrinsically incapable of being corrected; impossible to disprove, by its very nature.

   The statement "My knee hurts" is incorrigible.

6. (archaic, of a disease) Impossible to cure.
   • 1859, The British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 6, page 312:

     It may appear as an epidemic, as a hereditary complaint, or as an obstinate and incorrigible disease again and again recurring.

同意語

• (impossible to materially correct): irreparable, uncorrectable
• (depraved): irredeemable, unreformable, reprobate
• (established in a belief or habit): determined, dyed-in-the-wool, hopeless, incurable, unalterable
• (intrinsically uncorrectable): axiomatic, unfalsifiable
• (archaic, of a disease): incurable

反意語

• corrigible
• correctable

派生語

関連する語

• incorrect

名詞

incorrigible (plural incorrigibles)

1. An incorrigibly bad individual.

   The incorrigibles in the prison population are either lifers or habitual reoffenders.

語源

Borrowed from Middle French incorrigible, from Latin incorrigibilis.

発音

• IPA: /inˌkɔriˈdʒiːbəl/, /inˈkɔridʒibəl/

形容詞

incorrigible (Late Middle English)

1. insoluble, unmanageable
2. irredeemable, not reformable

派生した語

• English: incorrigible

参照

• “incorriǧī̆ble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.