irradicable

[ ih-rad-i-kuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. ineradicable.

Other Words From

• ir·radi·ca·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of irradicable¹

1720–30; ir- ² + Latin rādīc ( ārī ) to grow roots, take root (taken incorrectly as “to root up”) + -able. See eradicable

Example Sentences

Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Maryland Democrat who led Trump’s impeachment over the insurrection, said Biden’s 306-232 electoral victory in 2020 remains “the hard, inescapable, irradicable fact that Donald Trump and his followers have not been able to accept — to this day.”

From Seattle Times

What Gewen focuses on, and excels at, is the story of how the rise of gangster dictators left an irradicable impression on the Jewish intellectuals who escaped Nazi Germany before World War II. These men and women — Leo Strauss, Hannah Arendt, Hans Morgenthau and Kissinger — bent their brilliant minds toward the questions raised by the century’s savagery.

From New York Times

It was as though the pet names, the diminutives, were no longer suitable for a teen-aged girl who bore on her forehead a great scar, irradicable evidence of the kind of courage rarely displayed by a grownup.

From Literature

Shun, then, as you would the introduction into your physical system of an insidious but irradicable poison, "The first slight swerving of the heart, That words are powerless to express!"

From Project Gutenberg

In the preceding pages, I have endeavored to show that, though there are both scientific and religious reasons for not believing in a plurality of origins of our species, the various branches of the human family are distinguished by permanent and irradicable differences, both mentally and physically.

From Project Gutenberg