Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eradicable

/ɪɹˈædəkəbəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: erad-i-ca-ble
IPA: /ɪɹˈædəkəbəl/

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Capable of being eradicated.

Example Sentences

"Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease."
"A small but increasingly powerful group of medical doctors and educators […] argued that poor white trash suffered not from hereditary impurities, but from a recently discovered and eradicable parasite, the American hookworm."
"Queensland's Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans said the disease was hard to detect, not eradicable but very easy to spread."

Etymology

From Latin ērādīcābilis, from ērādīcō (“uproot”), equivalent to eradicate + -able.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: ērādīcābilis

Inflected Forms

more eradicable (comparative) most eradicable (superlative)

Derived Forms

uneradicable

Frequently Paired Words

eradicate eradication eradicative

Synonyms

annihilable

Antonyms

ineradicable

Questions

How do you pronounce eradicable?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪɹˈædəkəbəl/.
What does eradicable mean?: Capable of being eradicated.
Where does eradicable come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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