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
Gary Rivlin, Time, 4 June 2025
That's why the spectacular cruelty with which the cuts were carried out tanked Musk's personal brand and triggered Trump's inexorable decline in approval.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
If this is the slow kind of hell, I’m used to it—
My hands are folded the wrong way, the cat sits on the bed
Like a limpet, the sun drops out of the sky, inexorable
As a chandelier earring.
—Jane Yeh, The New York Review of Books, 8 May 2025
This emphasis on the human touch is an interesting move in an industry where the move towards automation has seemed inexorable.
—David Prosser, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025
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“Inexorable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inexorable. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.
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