ineradicable

adjective

in·​erad·​i·​ca·​ble ˌi-ni-ˈra-di-kə-bəl How to pronounce ineradicable (audio)
: incapable of being eradicated
ineradicability noun
ineradicably adverb

Examples of ineradicable in a Sentence

She made an ineradicable impression on us.
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In his version of our political life, our deepest and most ineradicable habits of mind push some of us to indulge in radical fantasies about the rest of us. Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024 With varying degrees of fantasy, the photographs convey a singular message: their subjects, who may once have felt broken, appear reassembled, beautiful and ineradicable, their gazes fixed firmly forward. Ana Karina Zatarain, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024 They are not obsessed with corruption, seeing it as an ineradicable part of politics. Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs, 20 Jan. 2017 Such a radical dismantling of intellectual assumptions -- which are rooted in a seemingly ineradicable faith in progressive secularization -- would no doubt discomfit Anderson. Pankaj Mishra, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013 See all Example Sentences for ineradicable 

Word History

First Known Use

1818, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of ineradicable was in 1818

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“Ineradicable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ineradicable. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

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