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(adj) intransigent, adamant, adamantine
impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason
he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind; Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him- W.Churchill; an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency
(adj) grim, unrelenting, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, stern
not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
grim determination; grim necessity; Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty; relentless persecution; the stern demands of parenthood