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Definition of Implacable
1. Adjective. Incapable of being placated. "An implacable enemy"
Similar to: Grim, Inexorable, Relentless, Stern, Unappeasable, Unforgiving, Unrelenting, Unmitigable
Antonyms: Placable
Definition of Implacable
1. a. Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince.
Definition of Implacable
1. Adjective. Not able to be placated or appeased. ¹
2. Adjective. Adamant; immovable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Implacable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Implacable
Literary usage of Implacable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"He rejoined implacable in England after the campaign. B. MARTIN TO SIR HENRY
MARTIN, BART. Plymouth, March 29th, 1808. My dear Henry,—The easterly wind ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1890)
"321-6). reminder that ' should the implacable enemy eo far succeed as to land,
you will have an opportunity of showing your zeal at the head of your ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1850)
"... that a conquered Nation could rationally expect from the Power and Malice of
implacable ... implacable ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... to the beginning of the civil war ; when he declared him* self at once the
implacable enemy of Christ and of Constantius. This state of constraint might ..."
5. The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1901)
"... since become my implacable enemy, for no other reason, at least that I can
imagine, than my bearing the name of a man whom his father has cruelly ..."
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