Synonyms and related words :
bad, beyond control, beyond recall, beyond remedy, breachy, chronic, confirmed, contumacious, cureless, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, defiant, dyed-in-the-wool, established, fast, fixed, fractious, gone, graceless, habitual, hardened, hopeless, immedicable, implanted, inculcated, incurable, indocile, indomitable, infixed, inflexible, ingrained, inoperable, instilled, insuppressible, intractable, inveterate, irreclaimable, irrecoverable, irredeemable, irreformable, irremediable, irreparable, irrepressible, irretrievable, irreversible, irrevocable, long-established, lost, naughty, obdurate, obstreperous, out of hand, past hope, past praying for, recalcitrant, refractory, remediless, resistant, resisting, restive, rooted, ruined, set, settled, settled in habit, shrewish, shriftless, sinful, stubborn, terminal, thorough, unalterable, unbiddable, unchangeable, uncontrollable, undone, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmitigable, unmoldable, unredeemable, unregenerate, unrelievable, unruly, unsalvable, unsalvageable, unsubmissive, villainous, wicked, wild