unavoidable

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Adjective

unavoidable

1. Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.

   an unavoidable urge

2. (legal) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.

Synonyms

• (impossible to avoid) inescapable, inevitable

Antonyms

• (impossible to avoid) avoidable

Translations

• French: inévitable
• German: unausweichlich, unvermeidlich, unvermeidbar
• Italian: inevitabile
• Portuguese: inevitável, incontornável
• Russian: неизбе́жный
• Spanish: inevitable

Noun

unavoidable (plural unavoidables)

1. Something that cannot be avoided.
   • 1825, The London magazine (volume 12, page 490)

     Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least […]

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