'Inexorable' definitions:
Definition of 'inexorable'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
adjective
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" [syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent]
Definition of 'Inexorable'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inexorable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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