ineluctably

Examples

• All

• The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are not simply strung along on a spectrum, ineluctably going through the same stages of development.

  Academic text (1993)

• People are ineluctably alike and ineluctably different.

  Fiction book (1995)

• America is now, ineluctably, part of a global community of its own making.

  Academic text (2002)

• Reading and writing take on, ineluctably, an ethical dimension.

  Academic text (1996)

• Later, the dishes would be cleared, people would spread out around the small house, and then, ineluctably, the arguments would commence.

  Fiction book (1990)

• At the beginning of all civilizations, art and religion were ineluctably fused: a god was a statue or a painting.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Karl Marx, of course, believed economic crises to be deepening ineluctably before his eyes.

  Academic text (1994)

• By her account, national, racial, and gender boundaries were ineluctably transcended by the cascading moral imperative of universal human rights.

  Academic text (2018)

• Ineluctably, some will head to Sandymount Strand to read aloud from "Proteus."

  Academic text (2004)

• I felt the tug of a growing intimacy drawing me as ineluctably as the receding tide takes the unwary swimmer out to unexpected depths.

  Fiction book (1993)

Synonyms

N

necessarily

vsineluctably

∞ 3.7

In a way that cannot be avoided

expresses inevitability without implying requirement or causation

I

inevitably

vsineluctably

181 4.0

You cannot avoid it

frames the event as unavoidable without stressing certainty

I

inexorably

vsineluctably

• Formal

15 8.3

In a way that cannot be stopped or changed

means unavoidable but not necessarily relentless or forceful

I

irresistibly

vsineluctably

6 3.9

So tempting that you cannot say no

speaks of unavoidable necessity rather than strong attraction

U

unavoidably

vsineluctably

5 4.1

In a way that cannot be stopped

is the general unavoidable sense without stressing necessity

I

inescapably

vsineluctably

3 5.8

In a way that cannot be avoided

is the identical idea expressed with a different word

U

unstoppably

vsineluctably

1 4.5

Nothing can stop it

relates to unavoidable outcome rather than unstoppable force

U

unescapably

vsineluctably

7.0

In a way that cannot be avoided

is the same unavoidable meaning but expressed with other wording

U

unpreventably

vsineluctably

8.2

In a way that cannot be stopped or avoided

focuses on inevitability rather than the prevention aspect

Antonyms

O

optionally

3 3.5

In a way you can choose but do not have to

How Inevitable

ineluctably

• Formal

1 9.9

inevitably

181 4.0

avoidable

15 3.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology