corrigible

/'kɔridʤəbl/

Thân thiện

A teacher helps a corrigible student with a math problem.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Capable of being corrected, improved, or reformed: Describes a fault, error, or person that can be set right or amended.
   • Open to or submitting to correction: Describes a person who is willing to accept guidance and improve their behavior.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The software bug was minor and easily corrigible.
  • He was a corrigible young man who learned quickly from his mistakes.
  • The report contained several corrigible errors that we fixed before publication.

Advanced Usage

• "corrigible behavior": Behavior that is amenable to improvement through discipline or instruction.

  • The teacher focused on the student's corrigible behavior rather than dismissing him as a lost cause.

• In a legal or penal context: Used to describe an offender deemed capable of rehabilitation.

  • The judge considered the defendant's youth and lack of prior record as factors making him corrigible.

Variants and Related Words

• Corrigibility (n): The quality or state of being corrigible.

  • The corrigibility of the design flaw saved the project from failure.

• Incorrigible (adj): The direct antonym, meaning not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or reformed.

  • His incorrigible optimism remained unshaken by the setbacks.

Synonyms

• Rectifiable: Capable of being put right.
• Amenable: Open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled.
• Reformable: Capable of being reformed or improved.

Antonyms

• Incorrigible: Not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed.
• Intractable: Hard to control or deal with; stubborn.
• Irremediable: Impossible to cure, put right, or correct.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. capable of being corrected or set right
   • a corrigible defect
   • a corrigible prisoner