inexterminable

English

Etymology

From Latin inexterminabilis. See in- (“not”) +‎ exterminable.

Adjective

inexterminable (comparative more inexterminable, superlative most inexterminable)

  1. Impossible to exterminate.
    • 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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inexterminable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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