ineradicable
/ˌɪnɚˈædəkˌʌbəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.49 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The procatarctick causes render the Disease more or less curable: a Consumption of grief, as it moves more slowly than others, so its malign effects are impressed with a more certain and irresistable force; wherefore unless prevented in the bud, takes an ineradicable root."
- "And in the corn, and vines, and meadow-grass, Teemed ineradicable poisonous weeds Draining their growth […]"
- "But there is in man a conscience as well as a consciousness, an ineradicable aspiration towards virtue, which is certainly no less difficult to understand."
- "“All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal and the most ineradicable of the passions that afflict the soul of man, and it is only vanity that makes him deny its power. […]”"
- "But the stairs daunted her. That fall had left on her mind an ineradicable fear of taking risks with her unwieldy limbs, even for the reward of taking over the supervision of her own shop."
- "While they were well aware of many of the problems of their autism, they had a respect for their differentness, even a pride. Indeed, in some autistic people this sense of radical and ineradicable differentness is so profound as to lead them to regard themselves, half jokingly, almost as members of another species […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English eradicable English ineradicable From in- + eradicable.
Inflected Forms
more ineradicable (comparative)
most ineradicable (superlative)