inexorable
When a person is inexorable, they’re stubborn. When a thing or process is inexorable, it can’t be stopped.
This is a word for people and things that will not change direction. An inexorable person is hard-headed and cannot be convinced to change their mind, no matter what. You can also say that a process, like the progress of a deadly illness, is inexorable because it can’t be stopped. A speeding train with no brakes is inexorable; it’s not stopping till it crashes. When you see the word inexorable, think “No one’s stopping that.”
Definitions of inexorable
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not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
“Russia’s final hour, it seemed, approached with
inexorable certainty”-
synonyms:
grim, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting-
implacable
incapable of being placated
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implacable
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impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
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