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implacabile

relentless

adjective eem-plah-KAH-bee-leh Rare
Descriptions & Qualities Personality

Origin: From Latin implacabilis, from in- (not) + placare (to appease).

Also means

implacable

Usage Note

Implacabile has the same form for masculine and feminine: un critico implacabile, una logica implacabile. It conveys something that cannot be appeased or stopped, stronger than inflessibile (inflexible) or inesorabile (inexorable), and is typically used in formal or literary registers.

Examples

"Il giudice era implacabile nelle sue decisioni."

Natural Translation

The judge was relentless in his decisions.

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