Implacable
[ɪm'plækəb(ə)l] or [ɪm'plækəbl]
Definition
(adj.) incapable of being placated; 'an implacable enemy' .
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Definition
(a.) Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince.
(a.) Incapable of ebign relieved or assuaged; inextinguishable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Malicious, vindictive, inexorable, unrelenting, relentless, rancorous, unappeasable, cruel.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PLACABLE]
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Definition
adj. not to be appeased: inexorable: irreconcilable.—ns. Implac′ableness Implacabil′ity.—adv. Implac′ably.
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Examples
- It drove thought back upon the idea of a vast and implacable Fate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An arm of the main conflagration had shot out a half mile south of its parent to embrace this tiny strip of road in its implacable clutches. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It is no wonder that he and his family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And he eyed the Boffins with implacable eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Implacable resentment _is_ a shade in a character. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Implacable November weather. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Her iron-grey hair hung in heavy bands on either side of her face--her dark eyes looked straight forward, with a hard, defiant, implacable stare. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I, vindictive and implacable? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The implacable animosity of Heyling, so far from being satiated by the success of his persecution, increased a hundredfold with the ruin he inflicted. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Many of his op ponents, it is true, found Pasteur implacable in controversy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The tone of her voice was as hard, as defiant, as implacable as the expression of her eyes. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Not a muscle of her stirred--the hard, defiant, implacable stare in her eyes never wavered for an instant. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Lily hesitated: her aunt's implacable memory had never been more inconvenient. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There it was exhibited to select companies of female viewers, in whose gentle bosoms it awakened implacable feelings. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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