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Thesaurus: inexorable

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.

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  1. 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.
  2. adj. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
  3. adj. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
  4. 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. "Inexorable equality of laws." Gibbon. "Death's inexorable doom." Dryden. You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania. Shak.
  5. Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm;determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, aninexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge. "Inexorableequality of laws." Gibbon. "Death's inexorable doom." Dryden.You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigersof Hyrcania. Shak.
  6. j:100 s not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty s impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill