1. Regarding something being corrected, improved, reformed, or set properly: The short story that Mrs. Thompson assigned the students to read had already been put into a corrigible form in that it was easy to understand and it helped them to increase their vocabulary skills.
2. Referring to something which is susceptible to being reformed or corrected: Jane was still a very young girl making mistakes like little children do, but she was willing to do better and so she was quite the corrigible child.
3. Etymology: from corrigere "to make straight, to correct", from com, "together" + regere, "to make straight, to lead, to guide, to conduct". © ALL rights are reserved.

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This entry is located in the following units: ag-, agen-, act-, agi-, agit- (page 7) com-, co-, cog-, col-, con-, cor- (page 7) -ible (page 1) regi-, reg-, rec-, rex- (page 2)