Inexorable means impossible to stop or to turn aside. The inexorable rise, an inexorable decline, inexorable logic.
It is used of processes rather than of people and carries a sense of doom even when the thing described is good. The Latin means unable to be moved by pleading.
1adjectiveinexorableImpossible to stop or to turn aside.
“The inexorable rise of house prices has pushed young families out of the city.”
inexorable is a quality.
Latin inexorabilis means not to be moved by entreaty, from in- plus exorare, to persuade by pleading.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₃éh₁os — mouth
Latin
inexōrābilis — relentless, inexorable
Middle French
inexorable
English, today
inexorable
Built from
From Middle French inexorable, from Latin inexōrābilis (“relentless, inexorable”) (or directly from the Latin word), from in- + exōrābilis (“that may be moved or persuaded by entreaty; exorable”). exōrābilis is derived from exōrāre (from exōrō (“to persuade, win over; to beg, entreat, plead”), from ex- + ōrō (“to beg, entreat, plead, pray; to deliver a speech, orate”), from ōs (“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European h₃éh₁os (“mouth”)) + -bilis. by surface analysis, in- + exorable.
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