ineluctable
2
9.9
- adjective
- /ˌɪnɪˈlʌktəbl/
- Formal
:
ineluctable
- The team realized the ineluctable consequences of their poor decisions.
- ineluctable flatness
- ineluctable modality
- ineluctable forces
Examples
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Metaphor is a dangerous, if ineluctable, device.
Academic text (1993) -
Its progress in Europe seemed ineluctable.
Academic text (2003) -
I can't believe how long it took me to learn that simple, ineluctable fact of our existence.
Fiction book (1997) -
Google the pictures of Davis and Obama, Sr., and the conclusion is ineluctable.
Blog text (6) -
For all the authors we studied, although there were differing emphases, the connection of body and spirit was deep and ineluctable.
Academic text (2015) -
With chilling clarity, Descartes leads us with an apparent and ineluctable necessity to a grand and seductive Either/Or.
Academic text (1991) -
The ineluctable presence of motive or desire underlying moralistic, asceticist rhetoric exposes transcendence itself as a delusion.
Academic text (1990) -
By focusing on the pervasiveness of dependency within families, and in particular the ineluctable dependence of children on parents, feminists cast aspersions on the very possibility of self-sufficiency.
Academic text (2003) -
The ineluctable passage of time affects us all, regardless of our choices.
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She faced the ineluctable truth that she could not change the past.
Synonyms
45
3.8
You cannot stop or prevent it
31
5.4
Certain to happen and cannot be avoided
11
8.6
Impossible to stop or change
1
6.3
Impossible to stop from happening
Not possible to remove or avoid completely
Antonyms
How Inevitable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ineluctable comes from two parts: in- meaning 'not' and eluctare meaning 'to struggle out', so it gives the image of something you cannot struggle away from. A helpful way to remember it is to think of reluctant, which also has the idea of resisting, and that is why ineluctable means 'impossible to avoid' or 'inescapable'.