Dictionary Definition
inexorable adj
1 not to be placated or appeased or moved by
entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final
hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless
persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood" [syn: grim, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
2 not capable of being swayed or diverted from a
course; unsusceptible to persuasion; "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 tendancy" [syn: adamant, adamantine, intransigent]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- IPA/ɪnεksɔræbl/
Adjective
- Unable to be persuaded: relentless
- Impossible to stop or prevent: inevitable
- Adamant
Translations
Unable to be persuaded: relentless
- Finnish: heltymätön, järkähtämätön
- Serbian: neumitan , neumitna , neumoljiv , neumoljiva
Impossible to stop or prevent: inevitable
- Finnish: vääjäämätön
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Extensive Definition
Inevitable derives from the Latin word vitare (to
avoid) and the prefix in
(meaning not or without). It refers to something that cannot be
avoided.
Business
- Inevitable disclosure is a legal doctrine related to employer rights..
Music
- The Inevitable released "Squirrel Nut Zippers" in 1995.
- Da Inevitable was released by Koopsta Knicca.
- Inevitable is a song written by Shakira.
- Inevitable Alien Nation is the second album by Keoki.
- The Inevitable is an album by Cormega.
- The Inevitability of a Strange World was released in 2006 by Halifax.
- Mushroomhead released "Inevitable" in the album M3 in 1999.
- Anberlin released the song "Inevitable" in the album Cities in 2007
Books
- Steven Goldberg's book The Inevitability of Patriarchy was published in 1973.
Alternative use
- In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, inevitables are extraplanar magical constructs.
Quotes
- xxxholic, Yuuko Ichihara : - "In This world there no such thing as coincidence, only inevitability."
- The Matrix, Agent Smith (hearing the coming subway): - "Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability."
- The Matrix Revolutions, Neo: - "You were right Smith. You're always right. It was inevitable."
- John F Kennedy: - "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
- Isaac Asimov: - "It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant."
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines T-500 : - "Judgement day is inevitable."
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
adamant, adamantine, bowelless, cast-iron, certain, cruel, dog-eat-dog, dogged, dour, fated, fateful, firm, flinty, fundamentalist, grim, hard, hard-core, harsh, heartless, hidebound, immobile, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable, inclement, indefeasible, inelastic, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, irreconcilable, irresistible, irrevocable, merciless, muscle-bound,
necessary, obdurate, obstinate, orthodox, pitiless, procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless, remorseless, resistless, resolute, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous, rock-ribbed, rockbound, ruthless, single-minded,
steely, stern, stiff, straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, sure, sure as death, sure as fate,
unaffected, unalterable, unavoidable, unbending, unchangeable, uncompassionate,
uncompassioned,
uncompromising,
uncontrollable,
undeflectable,
unfeeling, unforgiving, ungiving, unmerciful, unmoved, unpitiful, unpitying, unpreventable, unrelenting, unremorseful, unstoppable, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unyielding, without
mercy