Meanings
comparative more eradicable · superlative most eradicable
- Capable of being eradicated.
Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.
2 more examples
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.
2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 138Queensland's Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans said the disease was hard to detect, not eradicable but very easy to spread.
2021 February 28, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 22, column 2Synonyms: annihilable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCapable of being eradicated.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveable to be eradicated or rooted out
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinērādīcābilis
- Englisheradicable
From Latin ērādīcābilis, from ērādīcō (“uproot”), equivalent to eradicate + -able.
More words from Latin
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Greek εξαλείψιμος, εκριζώσιμος
- εξαλείψιμος (exaleípsimos)capable of being eradicated
- εκριζώσιμος (ekrizósimos)capable of being eradicated
Japanese 根絶できる, 根刮ぎにできる
- 根絶できる (konzetsu dekiru)capable of being eradicated
- 根刮ぎにできる (nekosogi ni dekiru)capable of being eradicated
- 無くせる (nakuseru)capable of being eradicated
Polish możliwy do wykorzenienia
- możliwy do wykorzenieniacapable of being eradicated
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eradicable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eradicable
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