ineradicable

Examples

• All

• Haven't I already recognized that moral questions may be ineradicable?

  Academic text (2008)

• A faint smell, but undeniable and ineradicable.

  Fiction book (1994)

• As such, they are powerful, ineradicable, and at the center of human social existence.

  Academic text (2009)

• Freedom is the power to decide something "final and ineradicable..."

  Academic text (2009)

• In the first years of the twentieth century, settlement workers in Boston began talking about color prejudice as "ineradicable."

  Academic text (2002)

• The fundamental, ineradicable human experience, as the American Thomist Flannery O'Connor said, really is consciousness of limitation.

  Academic text (1998)

• We live in a world of ineradicable—or at least very persistent—moral disagreement.

  Academic text (2008)

• The cactus signifies Arab survival, the ineradicable mark of the Palestinian farmer—and by metonymic extension, the nation—in the land.

  Academic text (1990)

• In some gardens, however, it is an almost ineradicable weed, and it has escaped into the wild and become quite widespread.

• I inherited from my father an ineradicable hatred of war.

Synonyms

I

imperishable

vsineradicable

2 7.3

Not able to be destroyed and lasting forever

is about inability to be removed or destroyed rather than not decaying

I

indissoluble

vsineradicable

• Formal

1 8.8

Cannot be ended or broken, for example a marriage

is more general and applies beyond formal or legal permanence

U

unerasable

vsineradicable

1 7.1

Cannot be removed, like a mark or memory

is used more generally to mean it cannot be destroyed or fully removed

I

irremediable

vsineradicable

1 9.6

Not able to be fixed or made better

focuses on lasting inability to be fixed rather than on removal

I

inexpungeable

vsineradicable

9.9

Not able to be removed or erased completely

is more general and stresses lasting inability to be destroyed

I

inexpungible

vsineradicable

9.9

A mark, memory, or smell you cannot remove and that stays with you

is the broader term for long lasting inability to be removed or destroyed

I

ineliminable

vsineradicable

9.9

Not possible to remove or avoid completely

is about full destruction rather than mere difficulty avoiding it

I

inextirpable

vsineradicable

9.9

Too hard to get rid of completely, like deep roots that keep growing

is more general, covering lasting inability to be removed by any means

I

inexterminable

vsineradicable

9.9

Impossible to get rid of completely

is more general and covers inability to be removed or erased as well

U

undestroyable

vsineradicable

8.2

Not able to be broken or damaged

is broader and covers inability to be removed or erased not only resisting destruction

I

ineffaceable

vsineradicable

9.9

Something you cannot remove or forget

is more physical and covers inability to be fully removed or destroyed

N

nonremovable

vsineradicable

4.8

Cannot be taken out from where it is

is broader and means it cannot be wiped out or destroyed in general

Antonyms

R

removable

20 3.3

Something you can take off or move to another place

E

eradicable

7.1

A thing people can completely remove, for example a disease or weed

How Permanent

ineradicable

1 8.8

enduring

1 4.2

persistent

82 4.9

temporary

557 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology