different between ineradicable vs durable

English

Etymology

in- +? eradicable

Adjective

ineradicable

1. Not able to be eradicated; (of a root, plant, etc.) too deep to remove.
   • 1666, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus: or, The Anatomy of Consumptions, London: Nathaniel Brook, Chapter 32, p. 197,^[1]

     The procatarctick causes render the Disease more or less curable: a Consumption of grief, as it moves more slowly than others, so its malign effects are impressed with a more certain and irresistable force; wherefore unless prevented in the bud, takes an ineradicable root.

   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, London: C & J Ollier, Act I, Scene 1, p. 27,^[2]

     And in the corn, and vines, and meadow-grass,

     Teemed ineradicable poisonous weeds

     Draining their growth […]

   • 1928, W. Somerset Maugham, “His Excellency” in Ashenden: Or the British Agent,^[3]

     “All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal and the most ineradicable of the passions that afflict the soul of man, and it is only vanity that makes him deny its power. […] ”

   • 1995, Oliver Sacks, “An Anthropologist on Mars” in An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, New York: Knopf, pp. 276-277,

     While they were well aware of many of the problems of their autism, they had a respect for their differentness, even a pride. Indeed, in some autistic people this sense of radical and ineradicable differentness is so profound as to lead them to regard themselves, half jokingly, almost as members of another species […]

Synonyms

• deep-rooted
• firm
• inannihilable
• ingrained
• inveterate
• irradicable

Antonyms

• eradicable

Related terms

• ineradicability
• ineradicably

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English durable, from Old French durable, from Latin d?r?bilis (“lasting, permanent”), from d?r? (“harden, make hard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d(j)????b?l/

Adjective

durable (comparative more durable, superlative most durable)

1. Able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring.

Synonyms

• permanent

Antonyms

• weak
• vulnerable
• transitory

Translations

Noun

durable (plural durables)

1. (economics) A durable thing, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.

Antonyms

• nondurable

Translations

Anagrams

• delubra

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin d?r?bilis.

Adjective

durable (epicene, plural durables)

1. durable (able to resist wear; enduring)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin d?r?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /du??a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /du??a.ble/

Adjective

durable (masculine and feminine plural durables)

1. durable

   Synonym: durador

Related terms

• durabilitat

Further reading

• “durable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “durable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “durable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “durable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin d?r?bilis. See durer and -able.

Pronunciation

Adjective

durable (plural durables)

1. durable
2. sustainable

Related terms

• durabilité
• durablement
• développement durable

See also

• écologique, vert

Further reading

• “durable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin d?r?bilis.

Adjective

durable (plural durables)

1. durable

   Synonyms: duradero, perdurable