eradicable

English

Adjective

eradicable (comparative more eradicable, superlative most eradicable)

1. Capable of being eradicated.

   Researchers think that polio is an eradicable disease.

   • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 138:

     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.

   • 2021 February, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 22, column 2:

     Queensland's Panama TR4 Program Leader Rhiannon Evans said the disease was hard to detect, not eradicable but very easy to spread.

Synonyms

• annihilable

Antonyms

• ineradicable

Related terms

• eradicate
• eradication
• eradicative

Translations

capable of being eradicated

• Greek: εξαλείψιμος m (exaleípsimos), εκριζώσιμος m (ekrizósimos)
• Japanese: 根絶できる (ja) (konzetsu dekiru), 根刮ぎにできる (ja) (nekosogi ni dekiru), 無くせる (ja) (nakuseru)