ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Implacable

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ɪmˈplækəb(ə)l/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Implacable is an adjective meaning Not able to be placated or appeased.

Meaning

Not able to be placated or appeased.

More Meanings

  1. Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable.
  2. Adamant; immovable.

Example Sentences

The battleships Washington and South Dakota pushed through the sea with an implacable ease.
Indeed Cain hated his Brother, becauſe his own works were evil, and his Brothers righteous; and if thy Wife and Children have been offended with thee for this, they thereby ſhew themſelves to be implacable to good; and thou haſt delivered thy ſoul from their blood.
He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
[I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.

Synonyms for implacable

Depending on context, synonyms include impacable, irreconcilable, unassuageable, unplacable, unpleasable, relentless.

Antonyms for implacable

Common opposites include appeasable, assuageable, pacable, pacifiable, placable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unappeasable, unmitigable, inexorable, unrelenting, relentless, unforgiving.

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