implacable

[ im-plak-uh-buhl, -pley-kuh- ]

/ ɪmˈplæk ə bəl, -ˈpleɪ kə- /

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adjective

not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.

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unappeasable, unbending, merciless.

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Origin of implacable

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English word from Latin word implācābilis. See im-², placable

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See inflexible.

OTHER WORDS FROM implacable

im·plac·a·bil·i·ty, im·plac·a·ble·ness, nounim·plac·a·bly, adverb

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How to use implacable in a sentence

The Democratic Party has been implacably for the people—in this state, most of them white—who got insurance.
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And right now, working-class and blue-collar whites think the Democratic Party is just implacably against them.
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Imagine that the Democrats were standing implacably behind a position that had the backing of 29 percent of the people.
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Either Moscow was implacably belligerent or shared the same rational interests as the United States.
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The white South implacably opposed any federal action in aid of the freed slaves.
Why Can't Our Politics Improve Like Our Medicine?|David Frum|February 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A despotic government hates implacably the freedom of the press.
The Trial of Theodore Parker|Theodore Parker
"He will learn something about the Law," said he implacably.
Under the Law|Edwina Stanton Babcock
His first act on reëntering the Senate was to deliver an implacably bitter speech against the President.
Marse Henry (Vol. 1)|Henry Watterson
And he halted, leaning back implacably against the Yocum's iron fence.
Ramsey Milholland|Booth Tarkington
Keith's youth was hateful to him now; it withheld pitilessly, implacably, the life that it was in its hands to give.
The Divine Fire|May Sinclair

British Dictionary definitions for implacable

implacable

/ (ɪmˈplækəbəl) /

adjective

incapable of being placated or pacified; unappeasable

inflexible; intractable

Derived forms of implacable

implacability or implacableness, nounimplacably, adverb

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