inexorable (adj.)

  1. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; grim determination; grim necessity; Russias final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty; relentless persecution; the stern demands of parenthood

    [ Syn: grim , 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 , intransigent ]

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