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Synonyms for inexorable
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Princeton's WordNet
grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting(adj)
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"
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down(p), dispirited, downcast, intransigent, brutal, exacting, severe, forbidding, persistent, austere, dismal, dark, sick, disconsolate, black, grisly, low, unrelenting, down in the mouth, stern, blue, unappeasable, gruesome, macabre, downhearted, grim, mordant, stark, dour, adamantine, strict, relentless, unforgiving, sorry, gloomy, drab, ghastly, depressed, dingy, dreary, drear, low-spirited, adamantadamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent(adj)
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"
Synonyms:
unrelenting, adamantine, relentless, unappeasable, stern, adamant, intransigent, grim, unforgiving
Wiktionary
English Synonyms and Antonyms
inexorable
That is severe which is devoid of all softness, mildness, tenderness, indulgence or levity, or (in literature and art) devoid of unnecessary ornament, amplification, or embellishment of any kind; as, a severe style; as said of anything painful, severe signifies such as heavily taxes endurance or resisting power; as, a severe pain, fever, or winter. Rigid signifies primarily stiff, resisting any effort to change its shape; a corpse is said to be rigid in death; hence, in metaphorical sense, a rigid person or character is one that resists all efforts to change the will or course of conduct; a rigid rule or statement is one that admits of no deviation. Rigorous is nearly akin to rigid, but is a stronger word, having reference to action or active qualities, as rigid does to state or character; a rigid rule may be rigorously enforced. Strict (Latin stringo, bind) signifies bound or stretched tight, tense, strenuously exact. Stern unites harshness and authority with strictness or severity; stern, as said even of inanimate objects, suggests something authoritative or forbidding. Austere signifies severely simple or temperate, strict in self-restraint or discipline, and similarly unrelenting toward others. We speak of austere morality, rigid rules, rigorous discipline, stern commands, severe punishment, harsh speech or a harsh voice, hard requirements, strict injunctions, and strict obedience. Strict discipline holds one exactly and unflinchingly to the rule; rigorous discipline punishes severely any infraction of it. The austere character is seldom lovely, but it is always strong and may be grand, commanding, and estimable.
Synonyms:
austere, hard, harsh, inflexible, morose, relentless, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, stiff, strict, uncompromising, unmitigated, unrelenting, unyieldingAntonyms:
affable, bland, easy, genial, gentle, indulgent, lenient, mild, pliable, soft, sweet, tender, tractable, yielding
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
inexorable
Synonyms:
merciless, unrelenting, implacable, unalterable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
inexorable(a.)
Synonyms:
unrelenting, relentless, implacable, pitiless, merciless, unmerciful, uncompassionate, hard, cruel, not to be moved by entreaty
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
inexorable(a)
Synonyms:
unyielding, relentless, implacable, unmovable, unrelenting
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "inexorable":
relentless, unrelenting, unstoppable, implacable, inescapable, inevitable, irresistible, ruthless
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#271 | black | |
#402 | low | |
#596 | hard | |
#618 | blue | |
#1640 | dark | |
#2263 | sorry | |
#3964 | severe | |
#4358 | sick | |
#7139 | strict | |
#9271 | brutal | |
#9645 | persistent | |
#10536 | stern | |
#11182 | rigid | |
#11437 | harsh | |
#11810 | inevitable | |
#12588 | stiff | |
#12618 | stark | |
#12913 | depressed | |
#13774 | rigorous | |
#14856 | grim | |
#22949 | irresistible | |
#24248 | relentless | |
#26085 | ruthless | |
#28539 | dismal | |
#28701 | gloomy | |
#36370 | gruesome | |
#36399 | macabre | |
#37338 | dreary | |
#39188 | exacting | |
#39287 | adamant | |
#39728 | uncompromising | |
#40388 | unstoppable | |
#42074 | inflexible | |
#42416 | forbidding | |
#43052 | drab | |
#47042 | ghastly | |
#48929 | merciless | |
#49169 | unrelenting | |
#50943 | inescapable | |
#53038 | austere | |
#58157 | grisly | |
#58318 | dingy | |
#60472 | unforgiving | |
#68728 | dour | |
#73839 | inexorable | |
#77553 | unyielding | |
#81752 | downcast | |
#82137 | unmitigated | |
#86369 | morose | |
#89199 | implacable | |
#114428 | unalterable | |
#117416 | mordant | |
#134215 | intransigent | |
#147160 | dispirited | |
#167212 | disconsolate | |
#169244 | drear | |
#185337 | adamantine | |
#245806 | downhearted |
How to use inexorable in a sentence?
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need a sense of life's possibilities.
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win.
Translations for inexorable
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- عنيدArabic
- অনিবার্যBengali
- inexorableCatalan, Valencian
- ubønhørligDanish
- unvermeidlich, unvermeidbarGerman
- inexorableSpanish
- järkähtämätön, vääjäämätön, heltymätönFinnish
- inexorableFrench
- neuaghinaghManx
- निष्ठुरHindi
- elkerülhetetlenHungarian
- inesorabileItalian
- 冷酷なJapanese
- onverbiddelijk, onvermijdelijkDutch
- nieugięty, nieubłaganyPolish
- неумолимый, неотвратимый, непреклонныйRussian
- neumoljiv, neumitanSerbo-Croatian
- தவிர்க்க முடியாதTamil
- amansızTurkish
- 残酷Chinese
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