Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. Dictionary

   inexorable

   /ɪnˈɛks(ə)rəb(ə)l/

   adjective

   • 1. impossible to stop or prevent: "the seemingly inexorable march of new technology" Similar relentlessunstoppableunavoidableinescapableinevitableirrevocablepersistentcontinuousnon-stopsteadyunabatinginterminableincessantunceasingunendingunremittingunrelenting
   • ▪ (of a person) impossible to persuade; unrelenting: "the doctors were inexorable, and there was nothing to be done" Similar intransigentunbendingunyieldinginflexibleunswervingunwaveringadamantobduratedeterminedimmovableunshakeableimplacableunappeasableunpacifiableunplacatableunmollifiableunforgivingunsparinguncompromisingstrictsevereiron-handedstringentharshhardtoughexactingrigorousdraconiancruelruthlessrelentlessunrelentingpitilessmercilessremorselessrare:indurate

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin inexorabilis, from in- ‘not’ + exorabilis (from exorare ‘entreat’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. inexorability noun

   Scrabble Points: 19

   • I

     1

   • N

     1

   • E

     1

   • X

     8

   • O

     1

   • R

     1

   • A

     1

   • B

     3

   • L

     1

   • E

     1

   Powered by Oxford Dictionaries

   More definitions, origin and scrabble points