adjective
- Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty.
- usage: "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood"
- synonyms: grim, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
- Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: adamant, adamantine, intransigent
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