unregenerate
Refusing moral reform
Unregenerate describes someone stubbornly resistant to reform or moral improvement—unrepentant and unchanged despite pressure to be otherwise.
The word comes from religious contexts where the unregenerate soul has not been spiritually reborn or saved.
More broadly, it characterizes anyone clinging to old ways or bad habits: an unregenerate smoker, unregenerate in his cynicism.
The tone often carries grudging admiration for the person's refusal to change.
Feeling no remorse
- incorrigibleImpossible to reform
- irredeemableImpossible to reform
- unapologeticShowing no remorse
- unremorsefulFeeling no guilt afterward
unashamed · uncontrite · unreformable · shameless · hardened · obdurate · unrepenting · brazenly
Firmly refusing to yield
- intractableImpossible to manage
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- inflexibleUnable to bend
- adamantStubbornly refusing to yield
unbending · mulish · headstrong · willful · bullheaded · pigheaded · recalcitrant · immovable
Not changed to something else
- unreconstructedUnchanged in outdated beliefs
- unreformedNot corrected or amended
- untransformedNot changed from original
- unalteredNot modified whatsoever
unchanged · unmodified · old-fashioned · diehard · traditionalist · holdout · unenlightened · backward
Resisting authority or control
- insubordinateDefying rightful authority
- disobedientRefusing to follow orders
- contraryOpposed in nature
- resistantWithstanding external forces
nonconformist · dissenting · mutinous · contumacious · oppositional · unruly · wayward · ungovernable
unrepentant
Feeling no remorse
- incorrigibleImpossible to reform
- irredeemableImpossible to reform
- unapologeticShowing no remorse
unremorseful · unashamed · uncontrite · unreformable · shameless · hardened · obdurate · unrepenting · brazenly · defiantly
obstinate
Firmly refusing to yield
- intractableImpossible to manage
- unyieldingRefusing to give way
- inflexibleUnable to bend
adamant · unbending · mulish · headstrong · willful · bullheaded · pigheaded · recalcitrant · immovable · intransigent
unconverted
Not changed to something else
- unreconstructedUnchanged in outdated beliefs
- unreformedNot corrected or amended
- untransformedNot changed from original
unaltered · unchanged · unmodified · old-fashioned · diehard · traditionalist · holdout · unenlightened · backward · retrograde
rebellious
Resisting authority or control
- insubordinateDefying rightful authority
- disobedientRefusing to follow orders
- contraryOpposed in nature
resistant · nonconformist · dissenting · mutinous · contumacious · oppositional · unruly · wayward · ungovernable · refractory
unregenerateregenerate
Restore by regrowing
born-again · reborn · converted · reformed · saved
unregeneraterepentant
Feeling sorrow for misdeeds
penitent · contrite · remorseful · apologetic · reformed
generation, generate, generator, generated, regenerate, regeneration, degenerate, progenitor, generating