corrigible

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   capable of being corrected, improved, or set right

   The review panel concluded that the accounting errors were serious but corrigible.

2. 2
   adj

   of a person: willing or able to accept correction and reform

   A corrigible student learns from criticism instead of repeating the same mistake.

From Middle English corrigible, through Old French from Late Latin corrigibilis ("capable of correction"), based on Latin corrigere ("to correct, set straight"). It is the positive counterpart of the more familiar incorrigible.

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