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Definition of implacable in English: implacableadjective ɪmˈplakəb(ə)lɪmˈplækəb(ə)l 1Unable to be appeased or placated. he was an implacable enemy of Ted's Example sentencesExamples - He felt a mixture of anger, frustration and hopelessness at fighting against a seemingly implacable system.
- He was conscious though, and gave her a glare of implacable hatred.
- In more civilized times even the most implacable enemies were treated with dignity.
- Investigations by The Sunday Times indicate that he will face implacable opposition from every Premiership club.
- Your nation endured the blitz to prevail over an implacable foe.
- Rationally, most people understand that civilised life in this country faces a heartless and implacable foe who is prepared to strike as often and as cruelly as possible.
- And what he saw inspired in him a deadly, implacable hatred.
- When the young girl refuses, the two become implacable opponents.
- Jack, resolute, determined, implacable, was never much for glad - handing.
- But this would also be a process in which constitutional nationalism adopted a harder and more implacable position.
- Hardly a week goes by without some industry organisation stating its implacable opposition to the idea.
- Do they imagine that the timely renunciation of resolve can placate an implacable foe?
- Maybe they see insects as implacable foes, sure to strike fear in the hearts of enemies.
- Today's enemy, however, is not a philosophy that condemned millions, but an implacable, unappeasable, pitiless fanaticism that exists on the very fringes of humanity.
- It is easy dealing with an implacable enemy.
- I am an implacable opponent of most of what this government does.
- Here there is, as I find, no such opposition and certainly no implacable hostility on mother's part.
- Yet the market remains implacable - febrile and unknowable.
- Her attitude to the new contracts remained implacable.
- The man who is supposed to be protecting them is somehow their fiercest and most implacable enemy.
Synonyms unappeasable, unpacifiable, unplacatable, unmollifiable, unforgiving, unsparing, grudge-holding inexorable, intransigent, adamant, determined, unshakeable, unswerving, unwavering, inflexible, unyielding, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, relentless, ruthless, remorseless, merciless, pitiless, heartless, cruel, hard, harsh, stern, steely, tough - 1.1 Unable to be stopped; relentless.
the implacable advance of the enemy Example sentencesExamples - This madness is the implacable and relentless determination to kill insight and awareness, even at the expense of destroying the island they depend on.
- But his hostility to the devil is implacable, utter, and steely.
- The movie's pace is as relentless and implacable as its villain.
- English fortresses fell one by one before his implacable determination.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin implacabilis, from in- 'not' + placabilis (see placable). please from Middle English: A word that comes via Old French plaisir ‘to please’ from Latin placere, found also in implacable (Late Middle English). Phrases like yes, please were originally short for ‘may it please you’ or ‘let it please you’. Please on its own, as used today, was not known to Shakespeare, who used please you: ‘Will you hear the letter?—So please you, for I never heard it yet’ (As You Like It). The proverbs you can't please everyone and little things please little minds are both old and can be traced back to the late 15th and late 16th centuries. Something pleasant (Middle English) was originally something ‘pleasing’, the meaning of the word in its French source. If you were complacent (mid 17th century) you were originally willing to go along with what pleases others.
Definition of implacable in US English: implacableadjectiveɪmˈplækəb(ə)limˈplakəb(ə)l 1Unable to be placated. he was an implacable enemy of Ted's Example sentencesExamples - Rationally, most people understand that civilised life in this country faces a heartless and implacable foe who is prepared to strike as often and as cruelly as possible.
- Hardly a week goes by without some industry organisation stating its implacable opposition to the idea.
- It is easy dealing with an implacable enemy.
- Jack, resolute, determined, implacable, was never much for glad - handing.
- Yet the market remains implacable - febrile and unknowable.
- Investigations by The Sunday Times indicate that he will face implacable opposition from every Premiership club.
- Today's enemy, however, is not a philosophy that condemned millions, but an implacable, unappeasable, pitiless fanaticism that exists on the very fringes of humanity.
- He was conscious though, and gave her a glare of implacable hatred.
- But this would also be a process in which constitutional nationalism adopted a harder and more implacable position.
- Your nation endured the blitz to prevail over an implacable foe.
- I am an implacable opponent of most of what this government does.
- And what he saw inspired in him a deadly, implacable hatred.
- The man who is supposed to be protecting them is somehow their fiercest and most implacable enemy.
- Here there is, as I find, no such opposition and certainly no implacable hostility on mother's part.
- Do they imagine that the timely renunciation of resolve can placate an implacable foe?
- When the young girl refuses, the two become implacable opponents.
- Maybe they see insects as implacable foes, sure to strike fear in the hearts of enemies.
- In more civilized times even the most implacable enemies were treated with dignity.
- Her attitude to the new contracts remained implacable.
- He felt a mixture of anger, frustration and hopelessness at fighting against a seemingly implacable system.
Synonyms unappeasable, unpacifiable, unplacatable, unmollifiable, unforgiving, unsparing, grudge-holding - 1.1 Relentless; unstoppable.
the implacable advance of the enemy Example sentencesExamples - But his hostility to the devil is implacable, utter, and steely.
- The movie's pace is as relentless and implacable as its villain.
- English fortresses fell one by one before his implacable determination.
- This madness is the implacable and relentless determination to kill insight and awareness, even at the expense of destroying the island they depend on.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin implacabilis, from in- ‘not’ + placabilis (see placable). |