Define the word inexorable"Inexorable" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Inexorable \In*ex"o*ra*ble\, a. [L. inexorabilis: cf. F.
inexorable. See In- not, and Exorable, Adore.]
Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm;
determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless;
-- of people and impersonal forces; as, an inexorable prince
or tyrant; an inexorable judge; the inexorable advance of a
glacier. "Inexorable equality of laws." --Gibbon. "Death's
inexorable doom." --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
You are more inhuman, more inexorable,
O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
"inexorable" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
inexorable
adj 1: not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim
determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final
hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable
certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern
demands of parenthood" [syn: grim, relentless, stern,
unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
2: not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course;
unsusceptible to persuasion; "he is adamant in his refusal
to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would
have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent
conservative opposed to every liberal tendancy" [syn: adamant,
adamantine, intransigent]
"inexorable" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "inexorable":
adamant, adamantine, bowelless, cast-iron, certain, cruel,
dog-eat-dog, dogged, dour, fated, fateful, firm, flinty,
fundamentalist, grim, hard, hard-core, harsh, heartless, hidebound,
immobile, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inclement,
indefeasible, inelastic, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible,
inevitable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, ironbound, ironclad,
ironhanded, irreconcilable, irresistible, irrevocable, merciless,
muscle-bound, necessary, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, pitiless,
procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless,
remorseless, resistless, resolute, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic,
rigorous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, ruthless, single-minded, steely,
stern, stiff, straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, sure,
sure as death, sure as fate, unaffected, unalterable, unavoidable,
unbending, unchangeable, uncompassionate, uncompassioned,
uncompromising, uncontrollable, undeflectable, unfeeling,
unforgiving, ungiving, unmerciful, unmoved, unpitiful, unpitying,
unpreventable, unrelenting, unremorseful, unstoppable,
unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unyielding, without mercy
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