Definition of inexorable Inexorable

/ɪˌnɛˈksɚʌbʌl/ - [inekserubul] - in•ex•o•ra•ble

We found 8 definitions of inexorable from 5 different sources.

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What does inexorable mean?

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WordNet by Princeton University

Adjective

inexorable - 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"
  grim, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
  implacable incapable of being placated; "an implacable enemy"
inexorable - impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "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 tendency"
  adamant, adamantine, intransigent
  inflexible resistant to being bent; "an inflexible iron bar"; "an inflexible knife blade";
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • inexorable (a.)
    Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

  • inexorable
    That cannot be avoided.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • inexorable
    in-egz′or-a-bl, adj. not to be moved by entreaty: unrelenting: unalterable.—ns. Inex′orableness, Inexorabil′ity.—adv. Inex′orably.—Inexorable logic of facts, Mazzini's phrase for the inexorable force of circumstances, whose conclusions are beyond the reach of argument. [L.,—in, not, exorabilisexorāreex, out of, orāre, to entreat.]

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