INERADICABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ineradicable mean? 

• INERADICABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INERADICABLE has 1 sense:

1. not able to be destroyed or rooted out

  Familiarity information: INERADICABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INERADICABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not able to be destroyed or rooted out

Context example:

ineradicable superstitions

Similar:

indelible; unerasable (cannot be removed or erased)

inexpungeable; inexpungible (not capable of being expunged)

inexterminable; inextirpable (incapable of extermination or extirpation)

Also:

lasting; permanent (continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place)

Antonym:

eradicable (able to be eradicated or rooted out)

 Context examples 

The white of the throat and paws and the spots over the eyes was dirty because of the persistent and ineradicable brown, while the eyes themselves were twin topazes, golden and brown.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

As his curate, his comrade, all would be right: I would cross oceans with him in that capacity; toil under Eastern suns, in Asian deserts with him in that office; admire and emulate his courage and devotion and vigour; accommodate quietly to his masterhood; smile undisturbed at his ineradicable ambition; discriminate the Christian from the man: profoundly esteem the one, and freely forgive the other.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)