Inevitably
[ɪ'nevɪtəblɪ;ɪn'evɪtəblɪ] or [ɪn'ɛvɪtəbli]
Definition
(adv.) in such a manner as could not be otherwise; 'it is necessarily so'; 'we must needs by objective'.
Editor: Yvonne--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly.
Checker: Rupert
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Unavoidably, certainly, surely.
Checker: Mae
Examples
- A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Something of that sort must inevitably happen. Plato. The Republic.
- Slowly but surely the results of the last few thousands of his preliminary experiments had pointed inevitably to a new and fruitful region ahead. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Ne vertheless, if you seek the very origins of the sciences, you will inevitably be drawn to the banks of the Nile, and to the valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But the first stage of contact with any new material, at whatever age of maturity, must inevitably be of the trial and error sort. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Moreover, the respite allowed by a narcotic is exceedingly brief, and a depression which is long and deep inevitably follows. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- But this very fact of her exceptional indulgence towards him made it the harder to Fred that he must now inevitably sink in her opinion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She felt, without looking, that Selden had immediately seized it, and would inevitably connect the allusion with her visit to himself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The end comes fast to meet me--comes inevitably, as the light of the last morning came at Limmeridge House. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I refer to those applications of power to agriculture which will inevitably divorce the farmer from the ownership of his tools. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My medical enterprise (as Betteredge calls it) must now, inevitably, be delayed until Monday next. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The Brangwen's house was one to which the gossip came naturally and inevitably. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Such a vocational education inevitably discounts the scientific and historic human connections of the materials and processes dealt with. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high geometrical ratio of increase which is common to all organic beings. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This improvement inevitably leads to the gradual advancement of the organisation of the greater number of living beings throughout the world. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Yes, he said, inevitably. Plato. The Republic.
- The movement for the democratic idea inevitably became a movement for publicly conducted and administered schools. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He brought her back again, inevitably. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I am sensible that much must inevitably be lost, but I hope something considerable may be received. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The discovery, whatever the motive, will inevitably humanize industry a good deal. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- One of us must be master of the situation--one of us must inevitably be at the mercy of the other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He took his tone from her, inevitably. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Never was wooer of wealthy bride so thoroughly absolved from the subaltern part, so inevitably compelled to assume a paramount character. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Culture, under such circumstances, inevitably represented the intellectual and moral outlook of the class which was in direct social control. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is the atonement that she is longing to make, poor girl, after having innocently and inevitably wronged him. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It could not be done, and the attempt to do it would inevitably engender suspicion. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And therefore philosophers must inevitably fall under the censure of the world? Plato. The Republic.
- Here is another set of ideas, ideas of repulsion and avoidance, that sprang up almost inevitably in men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On such a basis, moral education is inevitably reduced to some kind of catechetical instruction, or lessons about morals. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checker: Mae