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impacable

impacable adjective: implacable (unable to be appeased).

Adjective

impacable (comparative more impacable, superlative most impacable)

  1. (obsolete) implacable (unable to be appeased)
    • But those two other, which beside them stoode,
      Were Britomart and gentle Scudamour;
      Who all the while beheld their wrathfull moode,
      And wondred at their impacable stoure,
      Whose like they never saw till that same houre1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    unpacable

Synonyms of impacable

Forms of impacable

comparativemore impacable
superlativemost impacable

Origin of impacable

From Latin im- (“not”) + pacare (“to quiet”). See pacate.

Questions about impacable

What does impacable mean?
Impacable means implacable (unable to be appeased).
What part of speech is impacable?
Impacable is an adjective.

Words near impacable in the dictionary

  1. imp tree
  2. imp trees
  3. imp.
  4. imp. gal.
  5. impacability
  6. impacable
  7. impackment
  8. impact
  9. impact aid
  10. impact area
  11. impact areas

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