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corrigible a. 可改正的;易矫正的 可改正的;易矫正的 corrigible adj 1: capable of being corrected or set right; " a corrigible defect"; " a corrigible prisoner" [ ant: { incorrigible}] Corrigible \ Cor" ri* gi* ble\ ( k? r" r?- j?- b' l), a. [ LL. corribilis, fr. L. corrigere to correct: cf. F. corrigible. See { Correrct}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Submissive to correction; docile. " Bending down his corrigible neck." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Deserving chastisement; punishable. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. -- Howell. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Having power to correct; corrective. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] The . . . . corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 32 Moby Thesaurus words for " corrigible": ameliorable, amendable, controllable, correctable, curable, domesticable, domitable, emendable, fixable, governable, handleable, improvable, manageable, manipulable, manipulatable, medicable, mendable, perfectible, reclaimable, recoverable, rectifiable, recyclable, redeemable, remediable, repairable, reparable, restorable, restrainable, retrievable, reversible, tamable, untroublesome
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