eradicable
- adjective
- /ɪˈrædɪkəbl/
- Many scientists argue that malaria is eradicable through consistent use of insecticides and public health initiatives.
This wasn't a country formed in sin and in an eradicable sin.
- This wasn't a country formed in sin and in an eradicable sin.
Examples
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There are no uprisings of the people except when they are wounded in their in-eradicable traditions and in their legitimate liberty of conscience.
Academic text (1999) -
In spite of the over-idealization of Mother Mary, many millions of mothers, especially poor mothers, still find in her the eradicable symbol of God's power.
Academic text (2005) -
Humanists who debunk greatness can trivialize evil with equal facility, supposing it to be transient rather than fundamental and therefore to be eradicable by their own grand promotion of ideological correctness.
Academic text (1995) -
The health department announced that the disease is eradicable with proper vaccination programs.
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Experts believe that poverty is eradicable if we focus on education and community support.
Synonyms
Able to be completely removed
Able to be completely destroyed or removed
Can disappear completely with no trace remaining
Able to be removed or ended
A thing that people can break or damage so it stops working and is gone
Able to be removed or erased
Able to be put out, like a small fire with water
Antonyms
How Eradicable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Eradicable comes from Latin parts e- meaning 'out' and radic- meaning 'root', the same root you see in radical. Think of pulling a plant out by its roots; something eradicable can be completely removed like that.