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[ im-plak-uh-buhl, -pley-kuh- ] / ɪmˈplæk ə bəl, -ˈpleɪ kə- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR implacable ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy. Origin of implacableFirst recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English word from Latin word implācābilis. See im-2, placable SYNONYMS FOR implacableunappeasable, unbending, merciless. SEE SYNONYMS FOR implacable ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for implacableSee inflexible. OTHER WORDS FROM implacableim·plac·a·bil·i·ty, im·plac·a·ble·ness, nounim·plac·a·bly, adverbWords nearby implacableimpingement attack, impingement syndrome, impious, impish, impitoyable, implacable, implacental, implant, implantable, implantation, implant denture Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for implacableEsther and Mordecai confront a hostile host society and an implacable bureaucracy. Purim Perils: His View Is His Own|Rabbi Daniel Landes|February 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST Norm is a symbol of implacable corporate power—preening, surgically perfected, casually domineering. American Dreams: The Essential Book of 2012|Nathaniel Rich|December 28, 2012|DAILY BEAST And so DeMint, an implacable foe of Obamacare, will now get paid to run the organization that helped incubate Obamacare. Fiscal Cliff Countdown, Day 30: Senate Meets Dada|Daniel Gross|December 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST Abandoned its implacable opposition to the International Red Cross. Obama Does Delicate Dance on Historic Visit to Burma|Lennox Samuels|November 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Within a sentence, Funes and his implacable memory are dead, as is God. Aleksandar Hemon on Jorge Luis Borges’s ‘Funes the Memorious’|Aleksandar Hemon|September 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST "At your service, my dear friend," replied he; and from that instant his "dear friend" became his implacable enemy. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 3 (of 10)|Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) But there was a nobility and an implacable sense of justice about this singular religieux which conquered me completely. Tales of Secret Egypt|Sax Rohmer He turned away without shaking hands, but it struck her that he was not implacable. The Yukon Trail|William MacLeod Raine Implacable, and I was now divided from him by no silver or brick-coloured sea! The Purple Land|W. H. Hudson During the earlier years of the colony the Kolosh were implacable enemies. The Story of Sitka|C. L. Andrews
British Dictionary definitions for implacable
adjectiveincapable of being placated or pacified; unappeasable inflexible; intractable Derived forms of implacableimplacability or implacableness, nounimplacably, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to implacableuncompromising, unrelenting, intractable, inexorable, ruthless, unyielding, unforgiving, relentless, grim, inflexible, mortal, pitiless, remorseless, unbending, unflinching, vindictive, rancorous, unappeasable, ironfisted |