ineradicable

[in-i-rad-i-kuh-buhl] / ˌɪn ɪˈræd ɪ kə bəl /

ADJECTIVE

confirmed

Synonyms

WEAK

accepted accustomed chronic deep-rooted deep-seated dyed-in-the-wool entrenched firmly established fixed habituated hard-shell hardened ingrained inured inveterate irradicable long-established proved seasoned set settled staid valid worn

Example Sentences

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Here is Strout at her most emotionally precise, capturing a universal human longing in a single ineradicable image.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

The nation’s multilayered historical background has been variously stamped by a basic Arabic heritage, ineradicable remnants of protracted Ottoman Turkish rule and the long arm of the British colonial empire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

How should millennial, liberal democracies balance legitimate national pride with an ineradicable legacy of wrongs done to indigenous peoples?

From Washington Times • Jan. 26, 2023

After all my reporting, I am still pondering the seemingly ineradicable tension between the desire for inclusion and the biological reasons we established sporting leagues for men and women in the first place.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2022

He was a blustering, intrepid bully who brooded inconsolably over the terrible ineradicable impressions he knew he kept making on people of prominence who were scarcely aware that he was even alive.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

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"Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife" by Francine Prose

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