irradicable

English

Etymology

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Adjective

irradicable (not generally comparable, comparative more irradicable, superlative most irradicable)

1. (rare) Incapable of being rooted out or eradicated.
   • 1876, Louisa May Alcott, "Scarlet Stockings" in Silver Pitchers: and Independence:

     Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society".

   • 1992 Oct. 18, "BEST SELLERS: October 18, 1992," New York Times (retrieved 18 Nov 2012):

     Faces at the Bottom of the Well, by Derrick Bell. (Basic Books, $20.) A law professor argues that racism is an integral, permanent and irradicable component of our society.

   • 2008 April 19, Tim Padgett, "A Catholic's Take on the Pope's Trip," Time:

     Vatican II, the modernizing church council of the 1960s, emboldened that lay assertiveness among U.S. Catholics as never before; the pedophile tragedy has made the laity's self-reliant spirit irradicable.

Synonyms

• indestructible, ineradicable, undestroyable, unremovable

References

• “irradicable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.