implacable
adjective
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Synonyms & Antonyms for implacable
Synonyms
adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hard-nosed, hardened, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, inconvincible, inflexible, intransigent, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, opinionated, ossified, pat, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, self-opinionated, self-willed, stiff-necked, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
Antonyms
acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, flexible, pliable, pliant, relenting, yielding
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Public health experts warn that the implacable spread of the virus means the outbreak could easily continue well into next year. — Denise Grady, New York Times, "Ebola Outbreak in Congo Is Declared a Global Health Emergency," 17 July 2019 With Watts remaining implacable in his brilliance, the groove was allowed to slip and slide. — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, "The Rolling Stones review: A rejuvenated Mick Jagger leads the band at Soldier Field," 22 June 2019 Those regulators have been implacable in the wake of the trade war this spring. — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, "The trade war’s unlikely victim: Hollywood," 14 June 2019 Louis has since emerged as the French literary world’s most implacable, immoderate opponent of Emmanuel Macron, the young president whose promises of national renewal have lately run aground. — Jason Farago, The New York Review of Books, "J’Accuse!," 18 Apr. 2019 But this could amount to the continuation of Mayism by other means—trying to wring concessions out of an adamantine Brussels, wrangling with implacable ultra-Brexiteer Tory MPs, and watching activists defect to Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. — The Economist, "The question is not who will lead the Conservative Party, but whether it will survive," 13 June 2019 The frozen world, the cold thin air and the implacable harshness of mountaineering reflect the unforgiving landscape of numbers, formulas and theorems. — Quanta Magazine, "The Subtle Art of the Mathematical Conjecture," 7 May 2019 But the narration can also be alien, frightening, with an implacable omniscience. — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, "In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace," 13 June 2019 Yet at the horizon, a haze, an implacable stirring. — John Gastaldo, National Geographic, "Navigating the booming cost of urban life," 12 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'implacable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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implacable
adjective
, -ˈplā-\