Corrigible

Quick meaning: Corrigible is an adjective meaning Able to be corrected or set right.

Meaning

Able to be corrected or set right.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) Submissive to correction
2. (obsolete) Deserving chastisement.
3. (obsolete) Having power to correct.

Example Sentences

[…] he was taken up very short, and adjudgd corrigible for such presumptuous language.

Wouldst thou […] see Thy master thus with pleach’d arms, bending down His corrigible neck […]

Why is it, then, that there is on the whole a preponderance among mankind of rational opinions and rational conduct? […] it is owing to a quality of the human mind, the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible.

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

Synonyms for corrigible

Depending on context, synonyms include correctable, docile, punishable, corrective, amendable, improvable.

Antonyms for corrigible

Common opposites include incorrigible.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include correctable, amendable, redeemable, reformable, improvable, rectifiable.

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