inexorable
Adjective Satellite
- not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
- "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"
- impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; ; - W.Churchill
- "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"
Adj
- Impossible to prevent or stop; inevitable.
- Unable to be persuaded; relentless; unrelenting.
- Adamant; severe.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle French inexorable, from Latin inexōrābilis (“relentless, inexorable”) (or directly from the Latin word), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + exōrābilis (“that may be moved or persuaded by entreaty; exorable”). Exōrābilis is derived from exōrāre (from exōrō (“to persuade, win over; to beg, entreat, plead”), from ex- (prefix meaning ‘out of’) + ōrō (“to beg, entreat, plead, pray; to deliver a speech, orate”), from ōs (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éh₁os (“mouth”)) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon).
Synonyms
adamant, adamantine, grim, intransigent, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting, avoidless, certain, fatal, foregone, implacable, impreventable, ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, inexorable, irresistible, necessary, predictable, unavoidable, unescapable, unforestallable, unpreventable, unstoppable
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 19
inexorable: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordinexorable: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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