inexpiable

[ in-eks-pee-uh-buhl ]

adjective

1. not to be expiated; not allowing for expiation or atonement:

   an inexpiable crime.

2. Obsolete. implacable:

   inexpiable hate.

inexpiable

/ ɪnˈɛkspɪəbəl /

adjective

1. incapable of being expiated; unpardonable
2. archaic.
   implacable

Derived Forms

• inˈexpiableness, noun
• inˈexpiably, adverb

Other Words From

• in·expi·a·ble·ness noun
• in·expi·a·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of inexpiable¹

From the Latin word inexpiābilis, dating back to 1560–70. See in- ³, expiable

Example Sentences

We also move forward through the inevitable media circus and court battle, the abdication of responsibility by everyone except the girl’s mother, who sags beneath the weight of an irrational yet inexpiable guilt.

From New York Times

But “Manchester” strikes me as a film about moral rot, about inexpiable crimes of negligence and frivolity.

From The New Yorker

Sin, inexpiable: this is not the kind of subject he took on before.

From The New Yorker

Sports radio callers suspected the front office of writing off the season as it waited for its younger talent to develop, an inexpiable sin in sports-crazed Boston.

From BusinessWeek

I have never injured you—never avenged the inexpiable wrong you did me.”

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• contemptible
• deplorable
• disgraceful
• indefensible
• outrageous
• reprehensible
• shameful
• unconscionable
• unjustifiable
• untenable