Word Meanings - INEXORABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: INEXORABLE

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INEXORABLE)

• Cruel
• Savage
• barbarous
• pittiless
• inexorable
• unrelenting
• ruthless
• truculent
• hard-hearted
• harsh
• unmerciful
• brutal
• inhuman
• maleficent
• malignant
• Deaf
• Surd
• hard of hearing
• disinclined
• averse
• insensible
• rumbling
• inaudible
• heedless
• dead
• Imperative
• Urgent
• irresistible
• dictatorial
• peremptorily
• compulsory
• obligatory
• Remorseless
• pitiless
• merciless
• implacable

Related words: (words related to INEXORABLE)

• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• MALIGNANT
  Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of
• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• HEARTWOOD
  The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
• HEART
  A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
• RUMBLER
  One who, or that which, rumbles.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• MERCILESS
  Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak. Syn. -- Cruel; unmerciful; remorseless; ruthless; pitiless;
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• HEARTEN
  1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
• TRUCULENTLY
  In a truculent manner.
• HEARTDEEP
  Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
• BRUTAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. "Above the rest of brutal kind." Milton. 2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal intemperance." Macaulay.
• HARSH
  Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony. (more info) to G. harsch, Dan. harsk rancid, Sw. härsk; from the same source as 1. Rough; disagreeable; grating; esp.: To the touch."Harsh sand." Boyle. To the taste.
• RUMBLE
  1. To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance. In the mean while the skies 'gan rumble sore. Surrey. The people cried and rombled up and down. Chaucer. 2. To murmur; to ripple. To rumble gently down with murmur
• REMORSELESS
  Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." South. "With remorseless cruelty." Milton. Syn. -- Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable;
• RUMBLING
  a. & n. from Rumble, v. i.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• THEARCHY
  Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• SHEAR
  To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. (more info) shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear
• PIGEON-HEARTED
  Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
• TRAVERSE
  Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse.
• SEMISAVAGE
  Half savage.