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