Definition of "unpersuadable"
unpersuadable
adjective
comparative more unpersuadable, superlative most unpersuadable
Not persuadable; who cannot be persuaded or convinced.
Quotations
I wish, for both our sakes, my dear unpersuadable girl, that the decision of this point lay with me. But why, when you know it does not, why should you thus perplex and urge me?
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XX”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […]
He was unreasonable and unpersuadable and used intemperate language.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 43, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853
Of which one cannot be persuaded.
Quotations
He did not boast, but it naturally betrayed itself, that he had persuaded his aunt where his uncle could do nothing, and on her laughing and noticing it, he owned that he believed (excepting one or two points) he could with time persuade her to any thing. […] The unpersuadable point, which he did not mention, Emma guessed to be good behaviour to his father.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 8, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray
Compared with the researchers’ own anxious exertions and the towering unknowns that swirled before them, Boger’s calm and assiduous attention to his slides seemed to many of them—dangerously, a few argued—aloof. ¶ Boger thought to convince them otherwise was “an unpersuadable issue,” and so he didn’t try.
1994, Barry Werth, “Chapter 6”, in The Billion-Dollar Molecule, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 95