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English
Etymology
From Middle English implācāble (“immitigable, unappeasable”) from Old French implacable (“harsh, unrelenting; implacable”) (modern French implacable), from Latin implācābilis (“unappeasable, implacable; irreconcilable”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + plācābilis (“placable; appeasing, moderating, pacifying, propitiating; acceptable”) (from plācō (“to assuage, pacify, placate; to appease; to reconcile”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon)).
Pronunciation
Adjective
implacable (comparative more implacable, superlative most implacable)
- Not able to be placated or appeased.
- Synonyms: (obsolete) impacable, irreconcilable, unassuageable, (obsolete) unplacable, unpleasable
- Antonyms: appeasable, assuageable, pacable, pacifiable, placable
c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 269:He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
1810, J[ohn] Stagg, “Arthur’s Cave. A Legendary Tale.”, in The Minstrel of the North: Or, Cumbrian Legends. , London: Printed by Hamblin and Seyfang, , for the author, and sold by J. Blacklock, , →OCLC, page 105:[I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.
- Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable.
- Synonyms: relentless, unremitting, unyielding
2011, James D. Hornfischer, “The Giants Ride”, in Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN; trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 2012, →ISBN, page 345:
- Adamant; immovable.
1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: , London: Nath Ponder , →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas, , 1928, →OCLC, page 84:Indeed Cain hated his Brother, becauſe his own works were evil, and his Brothers righteous; and if thy Wife and Children have been offended with thee for this, they thereby ſhew themſelves to be implacable to good; and thou haſt delivered thy ſoul from their blood.
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Translations
not able to be placated or appeased
References
- ^ “implācāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 December 2018.
- ^ “implacable, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1899; “implacable”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin implācābilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
implacable m or f (masculine and feminine plural implacables)
- implacable (not able to be placated or appeased)
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French
Etymology
From Latin implācābilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
implacable (plural implacables)
- implacable, harsh, unrelenting
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Spanish
Etymology
From Latin implācābilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /implaˈkable/
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: im‧pla‧ca‧ble
Adjective
implacable m or f (masculine and feminine plural implacables)
- implacable, harsh, unrelenting
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