| 单词 | implacable |
| 释义 | implacable (once / 1691 pages) adj An implacable person just can’t be appeased. If you really offended your best friend and tried every kind of apology but she refused to speak to you again, you could describe her as implacable. Implacable is derived from the verb to placate, which means to soothe, or to appease. If you’re babysitting and the kid starts screaming the moment that his parents leave the house, and nothing you give him, be it a toy or ice cream, can calm him down, he might seem implacable. But try the TV. It tends to turn screaming kids into silent, happy zombies. WORD FAMILYimplacable: implacably+/placable: implacable/placate: placable, placated, placates, placating, placation, placative, placatory/placating: placatingly/placation: placations/placative: placatively USAGE EXAMPLES“Restraints disappear, and the field is open to the most expansive claims and the most implacable actors,” he writes. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) “The Good Wife” explored the complicated inner life of a wronged, but publicly implacable, political spouse. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Iran, which is not a driver of the ceasefire plan, but is a pivotal player in Syria’s short-term future, remains implacably opposed to Assad’s exit. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) adj incapable of being placated an implacable enemy Syn|Ant merciless, unmerciful having or showing no mercy grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelentingnot to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty unmitigableincapable of being mitigated placable easily calmed or pacified appeasable, conciliablecapable of being pacified mitigablecapable of being alleviated |
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