INEXORABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does inexorable mean?
• INEXORABLE (adjective)
The adjective INEXORABLE has 2 senses:
1. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
2. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
Familiarity information: INEXORABLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INEXORABLE (adjective)
Meaning:
Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
Synonyms:
unappeasable; relentless; inexorable; grim; unrelenting; stern; unforgiving
Context examples:
grim determination / grim necessity / Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty / relentless persecution / the stern demands of parenthood
Similar:
implacable (incapable of being placated)
Meaning:
Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
Synonyms:
adamant; intransigent; inexorable; adamantine
Context examples:
he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind / Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him / an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency
Similar:
inflexible (incapable of change)
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