Meanings
adjectiveinexterminable (not comparable)
- not comparableImpossible to exterminate.
duelling has become a fashionable vice in our country, and it is therefore to be feared , inexterminable
1803, Jacob Rush, Charges, and Extracts of Charges, on Moral and Religious Subjects
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveincapable of extermination or extirpation
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Origin
- Latininexterminabilis
- Englishinexterminable
From Latin inexterminabilis. See in- (“not”) + exterminable.
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inexterminable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inexterminable
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