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CORRIGIBLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does corrigible mean?
• CORRIGIBLE (adjective)
The adjective CORRIGIBLE has 1 sense:
1. capable of being corrected or set right
Familiarity information: CORRIGIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of being corrected or set right
Context example:
a corrigible prisoner
Similar:
amendable; correctable (capable of being corrected by additions)
improvable (susceptible of improvement)
redeemable; reformable (susceptible to improvement or reform)
Antonym:
incorrigible (impervious to correction by punishment)
Derivation:
correct (punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience)
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