inevitable
see also: Inevitable
Pronunciation
Inevitable
Proper noun
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see also: Inevitable
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈɛvɪtəbəl/
inevitable (not comparable)
- Impossible to avoid or prevent.
- We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.
- Predictable, or always happening.
- My outburst met with the inevitable punishment.
- 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl
- This horse and rider, with their free, rhythmical gallop, were the only moving things to be seen on the face of the flat country. They seemed, in the last sad light of evening, not to be there accidentally, but as an inevitable detail of the landscape.
- (impossible to avoid) inescapable, unavoidable, impreventable; See also Thesaurus:inevitable
- (naturally impossible to avoid) natural, necessary
- (always happening) certain, necessary
- (impossible to avoid) evitable, escapable, avoidable, preventable; See also Thesaurus:avoidable
- (always happening) impossible, incidental; See also Thesaurus:circumstantial
- French: inévitable
- German: unvermeidlich, unabwendbar
- Italian: inevitabile
- Portuguese: inevitável
- Russian: неизбе́жный
- Spanish: inevitable
- French: inévitable
- German: zwangsläufig
- Italian: inevitabile
- Russian: неизбе́жный
inevitable (plural inevitables)
- Something that is predictable, necessary, or cannot be avoided.
Inevitable
Proper noun
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