ineradicable
ineradicable adjective: not able to be eradicated; (of a root, plant, etc.) too deep to remove.
Adjective
ineradicable (comparative more ineradicable, superlative most ineradicable)
- Not able to be eradicated; (of a root, plant, etc.) too deep to remove.
- The procatarctick causes render the Disease more or less curable: a Consumption of grief, as it moves more slowly than others, so its malign effects are impressed with a more certain and irresistable force; wherefore unless prevented in the bud, takes an ineradicable root.1666, Gideon Harvey, chapter 32, in Morbus Anglicus: or, The Anatomy of Consumptions, London: Nathaniel Brook, page 197
- And in the corn, and vines, and meadow-grass,
Teemed ineradicable poisonous weeds
Draining their growth […]1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, London: C & J Ollier, act I, scene 1, page 27
- Synonyms:
- deep-rooted, firm, inannihilable, ingrained, inveterate, irradicable
ineradicable meaning in Tamil and Urdu
ineradicable in Tamil
- அழித்தொழிக்க முடியாத, வேரறுக்க இயலாத
ineradicable in Urdu
- ناقابل انسداد
Examples of ineradicable in a sentence
- But there is in man a conscience as well as a consciousness, an ineradicable aspiration towards virtue, which is certainly no less difficult to understand.1920, Frederick Soddy, Science and life: Aberdeen addresses, p. 166. Lecture to the Aberdeen University Christian Union, Marischal College...
- That fall had left on her mind an ineradicable fear of taking risks with her unwieldy limbs, even for the reward of taking over the supervision of her own shop.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 72:
- Indeed, in some autistic people this sense of radical and ineradicable differentness is so profound as to lead them to regard themselves, half jokingly, almost as members of another species […]1995, Oliver Sacks, “An Anthropologist on Mars”, in An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, New York: Knopf, pages 276–277:
Synonyms of ineradicable
Antonyms
Forms of ineradicable
| comparative | more ineradicable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most ineradicable |
Origin of ineradicable
From in- + eradicable.
Words formed from ineradicable
Questions about ineradicable
- What does ineradicable mean?
- Ineradicable means not able to be eradicated; (of a root, plant, etc.) too deep to remove.
- What is ineradicable in Tamil?
- Ineradicable in Tamil is அழித்தொழிக்க முடியாத, வேரறுக்க இயலாத. See Ineradicable meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use ineradicable in a sentence?
- But there is in man a conscience as well as a consciousness, an ineradicable aspiration towards virtue, which is certainly no less difficult to understand.
- What part of speech is ineradicable?
- Ineradicable is an adjective.
Words near ineradicable in the dictionary
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