Inexorable
adjective
Not able to be stopped or changed.
The inexorable march of time continues, unwavering and unceasing.
Often appears as...
- inexorable progress
- inexorable rise
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Formal
adjective
Very determined and cannot be persuaded to change.
He made an inexorable decision that changed his life forever.
Often appears as...
- inexorable determination
- inexorable will
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Not able to be stopped or changed.
The inexorable march of time continues, unwavering and unceasing.
Often appears as...
- inexorable progress
- inexorable rise
Usage tips
Formal
adjective
Very determined and cannot be persuaded to change.
He made an inexorable decision that changed his life forever.
Often appears as...
- inexorable determination
- inexorable will
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Unstoppable Force
Use 'inexorable' for processes and events that cannot be halted, emphasizing their relentless nature.
Global warming is an inexorable threat that demands immediate action.
Pro Tip 2/3Impersonal Nature
'Inexorable' often describes something without personal feelings or the influence of human desires.
The inexorable spread of the desert leaves the villagers no choice but to relocate.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
While it can be neutral, 'inexorable' commonly carries a negative connotation, implying a dire or unwanted outcome.
The inexorable decline of the ancient ruins saddened historians.
Pro Tip 1/3Unstoppable Force
Use 'inexorable' for processes and events that cannot be halted, emphasizing their relentless nature.
Global warming is an inexorable threat that demands immediate action.
Pro Tip 2/3Impersonal Nature
'Inexorable' often describes something without personal feelings or the influence of human desires.
The inexorable spread of the desert leaves the villagers no choice but to relocate.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
While it can be neutral, 'inexorable' commonly carries a negative connotation, implying a dire or unwanted outcome.
The inexorable decline of the ancient ruins saddened historians.
Pro Tip 1/3Unstoppable Force
Use 'inexorable' for processes and events that cannot be halted, emphasizing their relentless nature.
Global warming is an inexorable threat that demands immediate action.
Pro Tip 2/3Impersonal Nature
'Inexorable' often describes something without personal feelings or the influence of human desires.
The inexorable spread of the desert leaves the villagers no choice but to relocate.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
While it can be neutral, 'inexorable' commonly carries a negative connotation, implying a dire or unwanted outcome.
The inexorable decline of the ancient ruins saddened historians.
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Wade Davis: Cultures at...
the consequence of one particular set of adaptive choices that our lineage made, albeit successfully, many generations ago. And of course, we all share the same adaptive imperatives. We're all born. We all bring our children into the world. We go through initiation rites. We have to deal with the inexorable separation of death,
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Mark Pagel: How language...
in this modern, globalized world we can really afford to have all these different languages. To put it this way, nature knows no other circumstance in which functionally equivalent traits coexist. One of them always drives the other extinct. And we see this in the inexorable march
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Robert Wright: The...
these webs that can be these channels for compassion. You can go back all the way to the stone technological evolution -- roads, the wheel, writing, a lot of transportation and communication technologies -- has just inexorably made it so that more people
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Capitalism will eat...
the corporate world, if you want -- as a democracy-free zone. Now, in our democracies today, this separation of the economic from the political sphere, the moment it started happening, it gave rise to an inexorable, epic struggle between the two,
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Are we ready for...
wheels of evolution grind slowly but they are inexorable and as far as isolation goes when we as a species do colonize distant planets there will be the isolation and the environmental changes that could produce evolution in
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After billions of years...
is preordained to have the final victory, when the inexorable laws of thermodynamics shut down all novelty with the so-called heat death of the universe. Currently, there's a story of a local battle in that war,
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How empowering women and...
A broken-open heart is awake and alive and calls for action. It is regenerative, like nature, reclaiming ruined ground, growing anew. Life moves inexorably toward more life, toward healing,
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Mystery of the Romanovs...
far-reaching powers were inexorably slipping from their grasp inside the palace the long-awaited heir to the throne was diagnosed with hemophilia the slightest of injuries can bring on
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
slowly inexorably it spreads down through the shafts towards the deeper part of the nest
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Best Of Ants PIPE BBC Earth
slowly inexorably it spreads down through the shafts towards the deeper part of the nest
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Wade Davis: Cultures at...
the consequence of one particular set of adaptive choices that our lineage made, albeit successfully, many generations ago. And of course, we all share the same adaptive imperatives. We're all born. We all bring our children into the world. We go through initiation rites. We have to deal with the inexorable separation of death,
Video examples
Mark Pagel: How language...
in this modern, globalized world we can really afford to have all these different languages. To put it this way, nature knows no other circumstance in which functionally equivalent traits coexist. One of them always drives the other extinct. And we see this in the inexorable march
Video examples
Robert Wright: The...
these webs that can be these channels for compassion. You can go back all the way to the stone technological evolution -- roads, the wheel, writing, a lot of transportation and communication technologies -- has just inexorably made it so that more people
Video examples
Capitalism will eat...
the corporate world, if you want -- as a democracy-free zone. Now, in our democracies today, this separation of the economic from the political sphere, the moment it started happening, it gave rise to an inexorable, epic struggle between the two,
Video examples
Are we ready for...
wheels of evolution grind slowly but they are inexorable and as far as isolation goes when we as a species do colonize distant planets there will be the isolation and the environmental changes that could produce evolution in
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After billions of years...
is preordained to have the final victory, when the inexorable laws of thermodynamics shut down all novelty with the so-called heat death of the universe. Currently, there's a story of a local battle in that war,
Video examples
How empowering women and...
A broken-open heart is awake and alive and calls for action. It is regenerative, like nature, reclaiming ruined ground, growing anew. Life moves inexorably toward more life, toward healing,
Video examples
Mystery of the Romanovs...
far-reaching powers were inexorably slipping from their grasp inside the palace the long-awaited heir to the throne was diagnosed with hemophilia the slightest of injuries can bring on
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
slowly inexorably it spreads down through the shafts towards the deeper part of the nest
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Best Of Ants PIPE BBC Earth
slowly inexorably it spreads down through the shafts towards the deeper part of the nest
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Rick Tumlinson
American Businessman
By opening space, for the first time in our history, rather than inexorably extracting the blood of life from this oh-so-precious sphere in our quest for wealth, we will turn outwards and upwards, creating new wealth from places already dead, advancing into places where there is no life, and bringing its seeds with us.
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Klaus Schwab
German Economist
I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.
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Arthur Peacocke
English Theologian
The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.
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Noreena Hertz
English Author
Goodwill and reputation are intangibles, but they are the keys to business success. Since they are also inexorably linked to social values, it follows that a change in social norms will have a significant impact on profits.
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James Stephens
Irish Poet
The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.
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Neal Boortz
American Journalist
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
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James Baldwin
American Novelist
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Spanish Philosopher
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
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Arthur Miller
American Playwright
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
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Sara Teasdale
American Author
There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
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Rick Tumlinson
American Businessman
By opening space, for the first time in our history, rather than inexorably extracting the blood of life from this oh-so-precious sphere in our quest for wealth, we will turn outwards and upwards, creating new wealth from places already dead, advancing into places where there is no life, and bringing its seeds with us.
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Klaus Schwab
German Economist
I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation.
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Arthur Peacocke
English Theologian
The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.
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Noreena Hertz
English Author
Goodwill and reputation are intangibles, but they are the keys to business success. Since they are also inexorably linked to social values, it follows that a change in social norms will have a significant impact on profits.
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James Stephens
Irish Poet
The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.
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Neal Boortz
American Journalist
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
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James Baldwin
American Novelist
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Spanish Philosopher
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
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Arthur Miller
American Playwright
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
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Sara Teasdale
American Author
There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
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