inexorable

inexorable
    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}]
    

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;
   -- of people and impersonal forces; as, an inexorable prince
   or tyrant; an inexorable judge; the inexorable advance of a
   glacier. "Inexorable equality of laws." --Gibbon. "Death's
   inexorable doom." --Dryden.
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         You are more inhuman, more inexorable,
         O, ten times more than tigers of Hyrcania. --Shak.
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99 Moby Thesaurus words for "inexorable":
      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