# implacable
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English implācāble (“immitigable, unappeasable”) from Old French implacable (“harsh, unrelenting; implacable”) (modern French implacable), from Latin implācābilis (“unappeasable, implacable; irreconcilable”), from im- (variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + plācābilis (“placable; appeasing, moderating, pacifying, propitiating; acceptable”) (from plācō (“to assuage, pacify, placate; to appease; to reconcile”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon)).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪmˈplækəb(ə)l/, /-ˈpleɪ-/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ɪmˈplækəbəl/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: im‧pla‧ca‧ble

### Adjective

implacable (comparative more implacable, superlative most implacable)
* Not able to be placated or appeased.
    Synonyms: (obsolete) impacable, irreconcilable, unassuageable, (obsolete) unplacable, unpleasable
    Antonyms: appeasable, assuageable, pacable, pacifiable, placable
** c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 269:He is knight dubb'd with vnhatche'd Rapier, and on carpet conſideration, but he is a diuell in priuate brall, soules and bodies hath he diuorc'd three, and his incenſement at this moment is ſo implacable, that ſatisfaction can be none, but by pangs of death and ſepulcher: Hob, nob, is his word: giu't or take't.
** 1810, J[ohn] Stagg, “Arthur’s Cave. A Legendary Tale.”, in The Minstrel of the North: Or, Cumbrian Legends. […], London: Printed by Hamblin and Seyfang, […], for the author, and sold by J. Blacklock, […], →OCLC, page 105:[I]n the reign of Henry the Second, a body happening, by chance, to be dug up near Glastonbury Abbey, without any symptoms of putrefaction or decay, the Welch, the descendants of the Ancient Britons, tenacious of the dignity and reputation of that illustrious hero [King Arthur], vainly supposed it could be no other than the body of their justly-boasted Pen-Dragon; and that he had been immured in that sepulchre by the spells of some powerful and implacable inchanter.
* Impossible to prevent or stop; inexorable, unrelenting, unstoppable.
    Synonyms: relentless, unremitting, unyielding
** 2011, James D. Hornfischer, “The Giants Ride”, in Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN; trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, 2012, →ISBN, page 345:The battleships Washington and South Dakota pushed through the sea with an implacable ease.
* Adamant; immovable.
** 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London, (Please provide a date or year), page 84:Indeed Cain hated his Brother, becauſe his own works were evil, and his Brothers righteous; and if thy Wife and Children have been offended with thee for this, they thereby ſhew themſelves to be implacable to good; and thou haſt delivered thy ſoul from their blood.

#### Derived terms

* implacability
* implacableness
* implacably

#### Related terms

* placability
* placable
* placableness
* placably
* unplacable

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “implācāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 December 2018.
* ↑ “implacable, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1899; “implacable”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin implācābilis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [im.pləˈkab.blə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [im.plaˈka.ble]

### Adjective

implacable m or f (masculine and feminine plural implacables)
* implacable (not able to be placated or appeased)

#### Derived terms

* implacablement

#### Related terms

* implacabilitat

### Further reading

* “implacable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## French
### Etymology

From Latin implācābilis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ̃.pla.kabl/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

implacable (plural implacables)
* implacable, harsh, unrelenting

#### Derived terms

* implacabilité
* implacablement

### Further reading

* “implacable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Spanish
### Etymology

From Latin implācābilis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /implaˈkable/ [ĩm.plaˈka.β̞le]
* Rhymes: -able
* Syllabification: im‧pla‧ca‧ble

### Adjective

implacable m or f (masculine and feminine plural implacables)
* implacable
* harsh
    Synonym: riguroso
* unrelenting
    Synonym: furioso

#### Derived terms

* implacabilidad
* implacablemente

#### Related terms

* aplacar

### Further reading

* “implacable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10