INEVITABLE


Meaning of INEVITABLE in English

adjective

incapable of being avoided or escaped

the effect of the scandal on the election was inevitable

Synonyms: certain, ineluctable, ineludible, inescapable, inevasible, necessary, returnless, unavoidable, unescapable, unevadable

Related Word: ineliminable, sure, unpreventable; decided, settled; destined, foreordained; inexorable, inflexible

Idioms: as sure to follow as night follows day, in the cards

Contrasted words: eludible, escapable, evadable

Antonyms: avoidable, evitable

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