Inexorable

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           You are more inhuman, more inexorable,
           O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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