inexorable
adjective
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The Latin antecedent of inexorable is inexorabilis, which is itself a combination of the prefix in-, meaning "not," plus exorabilis, meaning "pliant" or "capable of being moved by entreaty." It's a fitting etymology for inexorable. You can beseech and implore until you're blue in the face, but that won't have any effect on something that's inexorable. Inexorable has been a part of the English language since the 1500s. Originally, it was often applied to people or sometimes to personified things, as in "deaf and inexorable laws." These days, it is usually applied to things, as in "inexorable monotony" or "an inexorable trend." In such cases, it essentially means "unyielding" or "inflexible."
Examples of inexorable in a Sentence
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2024
In fact, the Pacific Ocean’s ENSO pattern has been in a neutral or La Niña phase for more than 17 of the past 30 years, which has done little more than temporarily slow the inexorable rise in global temperatures.
—Mark Gongloff, The Mercury News, 8 June 2024
Although the group planned for the possibility of still greater success, its primary goal was to initiate a longer and inexorable process leading to Israel’s destruction.
—Matthew Levitt, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2024
The wheels of the Connecticut General Assembly slowly began turning this week, producing some of the first floor votes on bills since the 2024 session opened on Feb. 7, a day that also began the inexorable countdown towards its constitutional adjournment deadline of midnight on May 8.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2024
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“Inexorable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inexorable. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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