Inveterate vs Irradicable - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between inveterate and irradicable

is that inveterate is old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit while irradicable is incapable of being rooted out or eradicated.

As a verb inveterate

is to fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.

inveterate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Old; firmly established by long continuance; of long standing; obstinately deep-rooted; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate habit.

* 1843 , , book 1, ch. 3, "Manchester Insurrection":

a Heaven's radiance of justice, prophetic, clearly of Heaven, discernible behind all these confused worldwide entanglements, of Landlord interests, Manufacturing interests, Tory-Whig interests, and who knows what other interests, expediencies, vested interests, established possessions, inveterate Dilettantisms, Midas-eared Mammonism.

* 1911 , Morrison I. Swift, "Humanizing the Prisons," The Atlantic :

In Montpelier, where this prison stands, the inveterate prejudice against prisoners has been swept away.

(of a person) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.

* 1868 , , Little Women , ch. 45:

[S]he offered kisses to a stranger so confidingly that the most inveterate bachelor relented.

Malignant; virulent; spiteful.

* 1748 , , Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of morals , London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 15:

A man of mild manners can form no idea of inveterate revenge or cruelty

Synonyms

* deep-rooted * ingrained * ineradicable * radicated

Antonyms

* casual

Verb

(inveterat)

(obsolete) To fix and settle by long continuance; to entrench.

* 1622 , , The History of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh :

"the vulgar conceived that now there was an end given, and a consummation to superstitious prophecies, the belief of fools, but the talk sometimes of wise men, and to an ancient tacit expectation which had by tradition been infused and inveterated into men's minds."

* 1640 , Edward Dacres, translation of The Prince by , Chapter XIX [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15772]:

"none of these Princes do use to maintaine any armies together, which are annex'd and inveterated with the governments of the provinces, as were the armies of the Roman Empire. "

* 1851 January, author unknown, "The Philosophy of the American Union, in The United States Magazine and Democratic Review , page 16:

"The foregoing elements of disunion are inveterated by the constituent formation of our national legislature. In the French chambers the members are all Frenchmen ; but our members of Congress are effectively Georgians, New-Yorkers, Carolinians, Pennsylvanians, &c."

Derived terms

* inveteration

References

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irradicable

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

(label) Incapable of being rooted out or eradicated.

* 1876 , , "Scarlet Stockings" in Silver Pitchers: and Independence :

Of course, the young people flirted, for that diversion is apparently irradicable even in the "best society".

* 1992 Oct. 18, " BEST SELLERS: October 18, 1992," New York Times (retrieved 18 Nov 2012):

Faces at the Bottom of the Well , by Derrick Bell. (Basic Books, $20.) A law professor argues that racism is an integral, permanent and irradicable component of our society.

* 2008 April 19, Tim Padgett, " A Catholic's Take on the Pope's Trip," Time :

Vatican II, the modernizing church council of the 1960s, emboldened that lay assertiveness among U.S. Catholics as never before; the pedophile tragedy has made the laity's self-reliant spirit irradicable .

Synonyms

* indestructible, ineradicable, undestroyable, unremovable