Implacable
adjective
Impossible to comfort, sooth or make less angry.
He remained implacable and did not accept my apologies.
Often appears as...
- remained implacable
- implacable anger
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Formal
adjective
Persistence or determination that cannot be stopped.
He has an implacable will to succeed.
Often appears as...
- implacable will
- implacable determination
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Formal
adjective
Impossible to comfort, sooth or make less angry.
He remained implacable and did not accept my apologies.
Often appears as...
- remained implacable
- implacable anger
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Persistence or determination that cannot be stopped.
He has an implacable will to succeed.
Often appears as...
- implacable will
- implacable determination
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Unappeasable Anger
Used when someone cannot be calmed or pacified, usually due to deep anger or hurt.
The judge's decision left the victims' families implacable.
Pro Tip 2/3Not For Bargaining
Indicates that no offering or argument will change a person's negative stance or mood.
Despite the concessions, the workers remained implacable.
Pro Tip 3/3No Signs of Softening
Suggests that time or circumstances do not reduce the intensity of someone's resentment.
Her implacable stance on the issue lasted for years.
Pro Tip 1/3Unappeasable Anger
Used when someone cannot be calmed or pacified, usually due to deep anger or hurt.
The judge's decision left the victims' families implacable.
Pro Tip 2/3Not For Bargaining
Indicates that no offering or argument will change a person's negative stance or mood.
Despite the concessions, the workers remained implacable.
Pro Tip 3/3No Signs of Softening
Suggests that time or circumstances do not reduce the intensity of someone's resentment.
Her implacable stance on the issue lasted for years.
Pro Tip 1/3Unappeasable Anger
Used when someone cannot be calmed or pacified, usually due to deep anger or hurt.
The judge's decision left the victims' families implacable.
Pro Tip 2/3Not For Bargaining
Indicates that no offering or argument will change a person's negative stance or mood.
Despite the concessions, the workers remained implacable.
Pro Tip 3/3No Signs of Softening
Suggests that time or circumstances do not reduce the intensity of someone's resentment.
Her implacable stance on the issue lasted for years.
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Tan Le: My immigration...
I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough now to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear. Possibilities that would not have been allowed were outrageously encouraged. There was an energy there, an implacable optimism,
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My immigration story -...
stepped outside my comfort zone enough now to know that yes the world does fall apart but not in the way that you fear possibilities that would not have been allowed were outrageously encouraged there was an energy there an implacable
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Tan Le: My immigration...
I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough now to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear. Possibilities that would not have been allowed were outrageously encouraged. There was an energy there, an implacable optimism,
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My immigration story -...
stepped outside my comfort zone enough now to know that yes the world does fall apart but not in the way that you fear possibilities that would not have been allowed were outrageously encouraged there was an energy there an implacable
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Alan Moore
British Writer
No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them.
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Floyd Skloot
American Poet
Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
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Andre Aciman
American Writer
It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.
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George Jackson
American Activist
But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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Anna Akhmatova
Russian Poet
I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
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Paulo Coelho
Brazilian Novelist
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.
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Eduardo Chillida
Spanish Sculptor
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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Will Self
English Author
Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
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Alan Moore
British Writer
No matter how powerful our political and religious leaders think they are, they are as dust before the immense and implacable forces of history and progress. I just hope that they don't make too much of a mess or take too many more people down with them.
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Floyd Skloot
American Poet
Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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Fidel Castro
Statesman
The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.
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Andre Aciman
American Writer
It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any other writer that make him the introspective genius he is.
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George Jackson
American Activist
But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.
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Albert Camus
French Philosopher
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
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Anna Akhmatova
Russian Poet
I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
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Paulo Coelho
Brazilian Novelist
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.
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Eduardo Chillida
Spanish Sculptor
Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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Will Self
English Author
Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.
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