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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INEX'ORABLE, a. [L. inexorabilis; in and exorabilis, from exoro, to entreat; ex and oro, to pray.]
1. Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; too firm and determined in purpose to yield to supplication; as an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge.
2. Unyielding; that cannot be made to bend.
Inexorable equality of laws.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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" [syn: grim, inexorable, 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, inexorable, intransigent]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin inexorabilis, from in- + exorabilis pliant, from exorare to prevail upon, from ex- + orare to speak — more at oration Date: 1542 not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped ; relentless <inexorable progress> • inexorability noun • inexorableness noun • inexorably adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 relentless. 2 (of a person or attribute) that cannot be persuaded by request or entreaty. Derivatives: inexorability n. inexorably adv. Etymology: F inexorable or L inexorabilis (as IN-(1), exorare entreat)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inexorable In*ex"o*ra*ble, a. [L. inexorabilis: cf. F. inexorable. See In- not, and Exorable, Adore.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You use inexorable to describe a process which cannot be prevented from continuing or progressing. (FORMAL) ...the seemingly inexorable rise in unemployment. = relentless ADJ: usu ADJ n • inexorably Spending on health is growing inexorably... ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Unrelenting, relentless, implacable, pitiless, merciless, unmerciful, uncompassionate, hard, cruel. 2. Unyielding, inflexible (to supplication), unbending, immovable (by prayers), firm, steadfast, sternly just, severe.

Moby Thesaurus

adamant, adamantine, bowelless, cast-iron, certain, cruel, dog-eat-dog, dogged, dour, fated, fateful, firm, flinty, fundamentalist, grim, hard, hard-core, harsh, heartless, hidebound, immobile, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inclement, indefeasible, inelastic, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, irreconcilable, irresistible, irrevocable, merciless, muscle-bound, necessary, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, pitiless, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, remorseless, resistless, resolute, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, ruthless, single-minded, steely, stern, stiff, straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, unaffected, unalterable, unavoidable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, uncompromising, uncontrollable, undeflectable, unfeeling, unforgiving, ungiving, unmerciful, unmoved, unpitiful, unpitying, unpreventable, unrelenting, unremorseful, unstoppable, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unyielding, without mercy