IMPLACABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does implacable mean? 

• IMPLACABLE (adjective)
  The adjective IMPLACABLE has 1 sense:

1. incapable of being placated

  Familiarity information: IMPLACABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPLACABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incapable of being placated

Context example:

an implacable enemy

Similar:

grim; inexorable; relentless; stern; unappeasable; unforgiving; unrelenting (not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty)

unmitigable (incapable of being mitigated)

Also:

merciless; unmerciful (having or showing no mercy)

Antonym:

placable (easily calmed or pacified)

 Context examples 

Zilla was his wife, and no more bitter-tongued, implacable old squaw dwelt on the Yukon.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I did not see into the eyes of Leach, for he was looking at Wolf Larsen, the old and implacable snarl of hatred strong as ever on his face.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Not a word more would he say, but sat in his implacable sullenness as indifferent to me as though I had not been in the room at all.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

White Fang was bitter and implacable.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

It may seem impossible to you that one in my humble walk of life should bear a deadly and implacable hatred against a man in the position of Captain Barrington.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is no wonder that he and his family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His creditors were not implacable; and Mrs. Micawber informed me that even the revengeful boot-maker had declared in open court that he bore him no malice, but that when money was owing to him he liked to be paid.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He has a gentle voice and a quiet manner, but behind his twinkling blue eyes there lurks a capacity for furious wrath and implacable resolution, the more dangerous because they are held in leash.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He deferred his departure a whole week, and during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on one who has offended him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

By it he had been formed and hardened into the Fighting Wolf, fierce and implacable, unloving and unlovable.

(White Fang, by Jack London)