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Inexorable

Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge.

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Implacable 84% connected

Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Implacable 84% connected

Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Inflexible 84% connected

Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Inflexible 84% connected

Not capable of being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Inexorability 74% connected

The quality of being inexorable, or unyielding to entreaty.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Inexorability 74% connected

The quality of being inexorable, or unyielding to entreaty.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

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Adamant 92% connected

A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralo…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Adamantine 92% connected

Made of adamant, or having the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Grim 92% connected

Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Intransigent 92% connected

Refusing compromise; uncompromising; irreconcilable.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Relentless 92% connected

Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible to the distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting; unyielding; unpitying;…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Stern 92% connected

The black tern.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Unrelenting 92% connected

Not relenting; unyielding; rigid; hard; stern; cruel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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