irradicable

comparative more irradicable · superlative most irradicable

1. not comparablerareusuallyIncapable of being rooted out or eradicated.

   Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society".

   1876, Louisa May Alcott, “Scarlet Stockings”, in Silver Pitchers: and Independence

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   Faces at the Bottom of the Well, by Derrick Bell. (Basic Books, $20.) A law professor argues that racism is an integral, permanent and irradicable component of our society.

   1992 October 18, “BEST SELLERS: October 18, 1992”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Nov 2012

   Vatican II, the modernizing church council of the 1960s, emboldened that lay assertiveness among U.S. Catholics as never before; the pedophile tragedy has made the laity's self-reliant spirit irradicable.

   2008 April 19, Tim Padgett, “A Catholic's Take on the Pope's Trip”, in Time

   Synonyms: indestructible, ineradicable, undestroyable, unremovable