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irradicable en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, rare, usually) Incapable of being rooted out or eradicated.
   • 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. 1992 October 18, “BEST SELLERS: October 18, 1992”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Nov 2012:
   • 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. 2008 April 19, Tim Padgett, “A Catholic's Take on the Pope's Trip”, in Time:
   • Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society". 1876, Louisa May Alcott, “Scarlet Stockings”, in Silver Pitchers: and Independence:

Forms

Deriveds

irradicably

Synonyms

ineradicable · unremovable · indestructible · undestroyable