INEXORABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inexorable mean? 

• INEXORABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INEXORABLE has 2 senses:

1. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

2. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

  Familiarity information: INEXORABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEXORABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

Synonyms:

grim; inexorable; relentless; stern; unappeasable; unforgiving; unrelenting

Context example:

the stern demands of parenthood

Similar:

implacable (incapable of being placated)

Derivation:

inexorability; inexorableness (mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

Synonyms:

adamant; adamantine; inexorable; intransigent

Context example:

an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency

Similar:

inflexible (incapable of change)

Derivation:

inexorableness (mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up)

 Context examples 

It was like Fate itself, and as inexorable.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She gratefully thanked him but remained inexorable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I never saw a more inexorable face in my life.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Looking up I saw a frightful face with cold inexorable light blue eyes looking down into mine.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no hope for him. Buck was inexorable.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

All flashed indignant or appealing glances at the inexorable Davis, and one passionate lime lover burst into tears.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I read an inexorable purpose in his grey eyes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Sir," I interrupted him, "you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady: you speak of her with hate—with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel—she cannot help being mad."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The terror of his face lay in his eyes, however, steel grey, and glistening coldly with a malignant, inexorable cruelty in their depths.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Leave me; I am inexorable.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)