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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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, inexorable, relentless,
           stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
    2: 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]

2. 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]

Thesaurus Results for inexorable:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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