Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Difficult or impossible to eradicate or destroy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not extirpable; incapable of being extirpated.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. incapable of extermination or extirpation
Examples
“There is no explaining otherwise to them, and anything less inevitably produces indignation and an inextirpable sense of injustice.”
“It is the profound, incurable, and inextirpable bigotry of the English people, to which they will not hesitate to sacrifice the national honour, the public happiness, their own liberties, and their own consciences ... ....”
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
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