adjective

• 1Unable to be placated.

  ‘he was an implacable enemy of Ted's’

  More example sentences

  • ‘It is easy dealing with an implacable enemy.’
  • ‘In more civilized times even the most implacable enemies were treated with dignity.’
  • ‘The man who is supposed to be protecting them is somehow their fiercest and most implacable enemy.’
  • ‘Maybe they see insects as implacable foes, sure to strike fear in the hearts of enemies.’
  • ‘Do they imagine that the timely renunciation of resolve can placate an implacable foe?’
  • ‘Your nation endured the blitz to prevail over an implacable foe.’
  • ‘Here there is, as I find, no such opposition and certainly no implacable hostility on mother's part.’
  • ‘He felt a mixture of anger, frustration and hopelessness at fighting against a seemingly implacable system.’
  • ‘I am an implacable opponent of most of what this government does.’
  • ‘When the young girl refuses, the two become implacable opponents.’
  • ‘He was conscious though, and gave her a glare of implacable hatred.’
  • ‘And what he saw inspired in him a deadly, implacable hatred.’
  • ‘Hardly a week goes by without some industry organisation stating its implacable opposition to the idea.’
  • ‘Investigations by The Sunday Times indicate that he will face implacable opposition from every Premiership club.’
  • ‘Yet the market remains implacable - febrile and unknowable.’
  • ‘Her attitude to the new contracts remained implacable.’
  • ‘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.’
  • ‘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.’
  • ‘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.’

  Synonyms

  unappeasable, unpacifiable, unplacatable, unmollifiable, unforgiving, unsparing, grudge-holding

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  1. 1.1Relentless; unstoppable.
     ‘the implacable advance of the enemy’
     More example sentences

     • ‘This madness is the implacable and relentless determination to kill insight and awareness, even at the expense of destroying the island they depend on.’
     • ‘The movie's pace is as relentless and implacable as its villain.’
     • ‘English fortresses fell one by one before his implacable determination.’
     • ‘But his hostility to the devil is implacable, utter, and steely.’