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Not escapable.

Incapable of being estimated or computed; especially, too valuable or excellent to be measured or fully appreciated; above all price; as, inestimable rights or privileges. But above all, for thine inestimable love. Bk. of Com. Prayer. Science is too inestimable for expression by a money standard. Lyon Playfair.…

Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain. "The inevitable hour." Gray. It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things. Burke.

The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen. Prideaux.

Not susceptible of excitement; dull; lifeless; torpid.

Not excusable; not admitting excuse or justification; as, inexcusable folly. Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest; for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. Rom. ii. 1.

The quality of being inexcusable; enormity forgiveness. South.

That can not be execrated enough. [R.]

Incapable of being executed or performed; impracticable; infeasible.

Incapable of being exhaled. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm; determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, an inexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge. "Inexorable equality of laws." Gibbon. "Death's inexorable doom." Dryden. You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigers…

The quality or state of being inexorable. Chillingworth.

Not to be expected or anticipated. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Admitting of no expiation, atonement, or satisfaction; as, an inexpiable crime or offense. Pomfret.

Quality of being inexpiable.

Incapable of being explained; inexplicable.

Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others inexplicable, to themselves uncertain. Burke.

A state of being inexplicable; inexplicability.

Incapable of being explored, searched out, or discovered. Sir G. Buck.

Incapable of being subdued by force; impregnable; unconquerable. Burke. A fortress, inexpugnable by the arts of war. Milman.