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eradicative

eradicative adjective: tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.

Adjective

eradicative (not comparable)

  1. Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
    • eradicative measures against smallpox
    Synonyms:
    annihilative

Noun

eradicative (plural eradicatives)

  1. (rare) That which eradicates.

Synonyms of eradicative

Forms of eradicative

pluraleradicatives

Origin of eradicative

From eradicate + -ive.

Questions about eradicative

What does eradicative mean?
Eradicative means tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
What part of speech is eradicative?
Eradicative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near eradicative in the dictionary

  1. eradicating
  2. eradication
  3. eradicational
  4. eradicationism
  5. eradications
  6. eradicative
  7. eradicatives
  8. eradicator
  9. eradicators
  10. eradicatory
  11. eradiculose

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