Inevitable
[ɪn'evɪtəb(ə)l] or [ɪn'ɛvɪtəbl]
Definition
(noun.) an unavoidable event; 'don't argue with the inevitable'.
(adj.) incapable of being avoided or prevented; 'the inevitable result' .
(adj.) invariably occurring or appearing; 'the inevitable changes of the seasons' .
Editor: Rodney--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain.
(a.) Irresistible.
Typist: Mason
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Unavoidable, necessary, not to be escaped, that must be suffered.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Unavoidable, infallible, certain, irresistible, fixed
ANT:Avoidable, uncertain, indeterminate
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Definition
adj. not able to be evaded or avoided: that cannot be escaped: irresistible.—n. Inev′itableness.—adv. Inev′itably.—The inevitable that which is sure to happen.
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Examples
- When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She felt strange and inevitable, as if she were centred upon the pivot of all existence, there was no further reality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was inevitable that Mecca and Medina should be in a state of rivalry and bickering feud. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In the inevitable jangle of these incompatibles the church had become dogmatic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Other great and inevitable expenses too we have had on first coming to Norland. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Such being the bent of Celia's heart, it was inevitable that Sir James should consent to a reconciliation with Dorothea and her husband. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Nothing irks me like the idea of being a burden and a bore--an inevitable burden, a ceaseless bore! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The state of my spirits little fitted me for the society of a stranger; but the meeting was inevitable, and I resigned myself to make the best of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The sense of inevitable routines that held all the world in thrall six years ago has gone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I can help to make your life here more bearable, but your fate is inevitable. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It looked to me that, if Price would remain in Iuka until we could get there, his annihilation was inevitable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Puzzledout of breath, all my pulses throbbing in inevitable agitation, I knew not where to turn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She did it with wretched feelings, but it was inevitable. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- If, in the moments I and my pupil spent with him, I lacked spirits and sank into inevitable dejection, he became even gay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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