adjective
- Unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy.
- usage: "a surly unforgiving old woman"
- 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, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unrelenting
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