ineradicable
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- ineradicableness noun
- ineradicably adverb
Etymology
Origin of ineradicable
First recorded in 1810–20; in- 3 + eradicable
Example Sentences
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Social media can efficiently make any lunatic theory an ineradicable and ever-evolving virus.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
These include Richard Kind as an Arconia resident with a supposedly ineradicable migrating case of pink eye and Kumail Nanjiani as his neighbor, whose apartment is crowded with Christmas decorations year round.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2024
How should millennial, liberal democracies balance legitimate national pride with an ineradicable legacy of wrongs done to indigenous peoples?
From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2023
In Afrofuturism’s case, the original sin is slavery, a trauma so ineradicable that it can only be “overcome” by imagining some totally alternative, time-bending narrative involving a vibranium-depositing meteorite.
From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2021
The guilt stayed with him, ineradicable, like the silent alarm in the fragile chest.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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