implacable

im-PLAK-uh-buladj

Meaning impossible to calm, please or change

Memory hook NOT PLACATE-ABLE. The children offer the roaring dragon a cake, a song and a bunch of flowers, but it roars on; it is not placate-able, it is implacable.

The implacable wind howled for three days without a pause.

In context Apologies, gifts and promises all failed; the old rival remained implacable, refusing even to shake hands at the reunion.

Similar relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, unyielding

Opposite forgiving, yielding, lenient

From Latin implacabilis: in- (not) + placabilis (able to be calmed).

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