inevitable
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4.6
- adjective
- /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbl/
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inevitable
- Sure change is inevitable when growth is the goal.
- almost inevitable
- become inevitable
- seems inevitable
They train so hard that winning is inevitable on race night.
- They train so hard that winning is inevitable on race night.
- Now those are his words, inbuilt and inevitable in Zionism.
- So it's, it's inevitable that this question will come up.
- When death becomes potentially not inevitable, it becomes a different thing.
- That is inevitable and you can't avoid that.
- And if you understand him anyway, you understand how inevitable it was for him.
- And so pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.
- It's only when rationality fails that conflict becomes inevitable for somebody like Grant.
- Cheat day limits the damage of cheating, which is inevitable for most people.
- So ultimately that we we see this as pretty much an inevitable route towards automation.
- But what I did say was inevitable was very high inflation.
Examples
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And although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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All the signs point to the inevitable confrontation between the forces of good and evil.
Fiction book (1990) -
So it's, it's inevitable that this question will come up.
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It's the next inevitable phase.
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Listen, change is inevitable, but progress is optional.
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By now it's fate was inevitable and the city fell with little struggle.
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They train so hard that winning is inevitable on race night.
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No sense postponing the inevitable.
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Some argue that migration from Earth is inevitable; it's in the myths of many cultures.
Academic text (1999) -
When faced with the challenges of climate change, it is inevitable that we must adapt our strategies.
Synonyms
946
1.0
Sure to happen or be true
79
4.0
Impossible to prevent from continuing or reaching its goal
45
3.8
You cannot stop or prevent it
31
5.4
Certain to happen and cannot be avoided
14
4.3
Decided by fate and impossible to change
11
8.6
Impossible to stop or change
2
9.9
Impossible to avoid or escape
1
6.3
Impossible to stop from happening
Antonyms
Compounds
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
inevitable = evitable (semi-transparent) = in + evit + able
The formation 'in-' + 'evitable' is morphologically regular, but the base 'evitable' (and root 'evit') is rare and its link to the common verb 'avoid' is not obvious to many learners.
Etymology
Inevitable comes from Latin parts in- meaning 'not' and evit- meaning 'to avoid', which is the same idea as the English word avoid. So, inevitable describes something certain to happen and impossible to avoid.