ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Ineradicable

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Ineradicable is an adjective meaning Not able to be eradicated; (of a root, plant, etc.) too deep to remove.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

And in the corn, and vines, and meadow-grass, Teemed ineradicable poisonous weeds Draining their growth […]
But the stairs daunted her. 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.
“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 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.

Synonyms for ineradicable

Depending on context, synonyms include deep-rooted, firm, inannihilable, ingrained, inveterate, irradicable.

Antonyms for ineradicable

Common opposites include eradicable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inextirpable, indelible, inexterminable, unerasable, inexpungible, inexpungeable.

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