ineducable
Resistant to instruction
Ineducable means incapable of being educated or taught.
The term appears in older educational and psychological literature to describe individuals deemed unable to benefit from instruction, typically due to severe intellectual disability.
The word carries clinical coldness and is now largely avoided: The institution housed children once classified as ineducable.
Modern practice rejects such absolute judgments about learning potential.
Unable to be instructed
- unreachableCannot be accessed
- imperviousUnable to be affected
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
- closed-mindedUnreceptive to new ideas
unreceptive · incorrigible · untrainable · unreformable · unadaptable · unamenable · intractable · impersuadable
Stubbornly resistant to control
- obstinateFirmly refusing to yield
- stubbornRefusing to change course
- willfulIntentionally unyielding
- defiantOpenly resisting control
uncooperative · intransigent · obdurate · mulish · headstrong · contrary · refractory · contumacious
Lacking requisite ability
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
- slowLacking in speed
- backwardToward what's behind
- remedialIntended to fix problems
beyond help · special needs · cognitively impaired · struggling · challenged
Recorded value reduction
- lost causeEndeavor certain to fail
- hopeless caseBeyond any possibility of improvement
- waste of timeUnproductive expenditure of hours
- irredeemableImpossible to reform
unsalvageable · futile · pointless · giving up · abandonment · despair · resignation · defeatism
unteachable
Unable to be instructed
- unreachableCannot be accessed
- imperviousUnable to be affected
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
closed-minded · unreceptive · incorrigible · untrainable · unreformable · unadaptable · unamenable · intractable · impersuadable · impenetrable
recalcitrant
Stubbornly resistant to control
defiant · uncooperative · intransigent · obdurate · mulish · headstrong · contrary · refractory · contumacious · rebellious
incapable
Lacking requisite ability
beyond help · remedial · special needs · cognitively impaired · struggling · challenged
write-off
Recorded value reduction
- lost causeEndeavor certain to fail
- hopeless caseBeyond any possibility of improvement
- waste of timeUnproductive expenditure of hours
irredeemable · unsalvageable · futile · pointless · giving up · abandonment · despair · resignation · defeatism · frustration
education, educate, educated, educator, uneducated, reeducation, miseducated, undereducated, educable