unavoidable
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3.8
- adjective
- /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/
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inevitable
- They all agree suffering is unavoidable but human beings still find a way to persevere.
- an unavoidable conflict
- an unavoidable conclusion
- an unavoidable reality
This question was unavoidable and the answer easy.
- This question was unavoidable and the answer easy.
- Like there's all kinds of seemingly unavoidable losses that occur.
- It's going to be a very bad hair day, but it's unavoidable.
- So time travel to to the future is not only easy, it's unavoidable.
- Another unacknowledged and unavoidable and disturbing fact is that we've got too much debt.
- So yeah, China, demographic collapse, unavoidable.
- Now, when you're on in the process of getting good, hitting plateaus is absolutely unavoidable.
- So that means that electrification of cars and vans, whatever else we do, that bit is unavoidable.
Examples
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The heavy traffic made arriving on time unavoidable.
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The civil war is unavoidable.
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Being criticized is never easy, but it is unavoidable in the teaching field.
Academic text (1991) -
Some of these effects are unavoidable and may be fairly easily resolved.
Academic text (2017) -
It's permitted and frankly unavoidable in their line of work.
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It's an unavoidable formality, I'm afraid.
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Most seventeenth-century New Englanders accepted slavery as an unavoidable, if not normal, part of their society.
Academic text (1991) -
I'm afraid it's unavoidable.
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Given the circumstances, a delay was unavoidable.
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Natural disasters are often unavoidable and require preparedness.
Synonyms
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5.4
Certain to happen and cannot be avoided
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9.9
Impossible to avoid or escape
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6.3
Impossible to stop from happening
Not possible to remove or avoid completely
Antonyms
How Inevitable
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3.8
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3.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unavoidable comes from three parts: un- meaning 'not', avoid meaning 'to keep away', and -able meaning 'able'. So, something unavoidable is 'not able to be kept away', which is why it means it cannot be prevented.