inexorable
in-EK-ser-uh-buladjMeaning impossible to stop or change; not moved by pleading
Memory hook IN it comes, no EXceptions. Pip shouts “Stop!” at the sea, but the tide keeps coming in, no exceptions: it is inexorable.
The inexorable tide crept up the beach and swallowed our sandcastle.
In context We begged the clock to slow down before the last bell, but time was inexorable; the minutes ticked by at the same steady pace no matter what we wanted.
Similar relentless, unstoppable, unyielding, inevitable
Opposite stoppable, yielding
From Latin inexorabilis, “not to be moved by pleading”: in- (not) + exorare (to win over by pleading).