eradicable
eradicable adjective: capable of being eradicated.
Adjective
eradicable (comparative more eradicable, superlative most eradicable)
- Capable of being eradicated.
- Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.
- A small but increasingly powerful group of medical doctors and educators […] argued that poor white trash suffered not from hereditary impurities, but from a recently discovered and eradicable parasite, the American hookworm.2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 138
- Synonyms:
- annihilable
Synonyms of eradicable
Antonyms
Forms of eradicable
| comparative | more eradicable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most eradicable |
Origin of eradicable
From Latin ērādīcābilis, from ērādīcō (“uproot”), equivalent to eradicate + -able.
Words formed from eradicable
Questions about eradicable
- What does eradicable mean?
- Eradicable means capable of being eradicated.
- What part of speech is eradicable?
- Eradicable is an adjective.
Words near eradicable in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: eradicable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “eradicable.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/eradicable. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.