inexorable

Definitions

Impossible to stop or prevent.

Impossible to persuade by request or entreaty; unyielding.

Examples

The inexorable passage of time eventually turns all things to dust.

Despite the team's best efforts to stop the decline, the company's bankruptcy seemed inexorable.

She faced the inexorable truth that her career in professional sports had come to an end.

Synonyms

relentless unstoppable unyielding inflexible implacable inevitable unavoidable

Antonyms

flexible yielding pliant merciful lenient changeable wavering