inexterminable
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin inexterminabilis. See in- (“not”) + exterminable.
Adjective
editinexterminable (comparative more inexterminable, superlative most inexterminable)
- Impossible to exterminate.
- Synonym: inexterminable
- 1803, Jacob Rush, Charges, and Extracts of Charges, on Moral and Religious Subjects:
- duelling has become a fashionable vice in our country, and it is therefore to be feared , inexterminable
References
edit- “inexterminable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.