implacable
adjEtymology
From Middle English implācāble (“immitigable, unappeasable”) from Old French implacable (“harsh, unrelenting; implacable”) (modern French implacable), from Latin implācābilis (“unappeasable, implacable; irreconcilable”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + plācābilis (“placable; appeasing, moderating, pacifying, propitiating; acceptable”) (from plācō (“to assuage, pacify, placate; to appease; to reconcile”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon)).
- derived from implācābilis
- derived from implacable
- inherited from implācāble
Definitions
Not able to be placated or appeased.
Impossible to prevent or stop
Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable.
- The battleships Washington and South Dakota pushed through the sea with an implacable ease.
Adamant
Adamant; immovable.
The neighborhood
- neighborplacability
- neighborplacable
- neighborplacableness
- neighborplacably
- neighborunplacable
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for implacable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA