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inexorable
Meaning: impossible to stop, prevent, or persuade
inexorable in a sentence
How inexorable is used in real sentences:
The inexorable advance of the wildfire forced the town to evacuate.
The historian traced the empire's inexorable decline across several generations.
“Recovery looked almost inexorable on official graphs, yet each rising line concealed setbacks: storms tore mats loose, and buried toxins resurfaced.”
— from the passage The Ninth Spring
“The city's redevelopment had been inexorable: workshops vanished, rents climbed, and the modest storefronts Sato painted became glass towers.”
— from the passage The Late Correction
Synonyms for inexorable
Other words for inexorable — relentless, unstoppable and unyielding — carry the same meaning.
- relentless
- unstoppable
- unyielding
Antonyms of inexorable
Words that mean the opposite of inexorable:
- yielding
- flexible
- preventable
Where it comes from
From Latin inexorabilis, meaning 'not moved by entreaty.'
Memory hook
INEXORABLE will not be EXHORTED to stop or change course.
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