ineradicable

adj

Etymology

From in- + eradicable.

  1. derived from ērādīcābilis
  2. prefixed as ineradicable — “in + eradicable

Definitions

  1. Not able to be eradicated

    Not able to be eradicated; (of a root, plant, etc.) too deep to remove.

    • And in the corn, and vines, and meadow-grass, Teemed ineradicable poisonous weeds Draining their growth […]
    • “All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal and the most ineradicable of the passions that afflict the soul of man, and it is only vanity that makes him deny its power. […]”

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for ineradicable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA