unavoidable
/ʌnəˈvɔɪdəb(ə)l
/adjective
Not able to be avoided, prevented, or ignored; inevitable: the natural and unavoidable consequences of growing old...
- Violations are more and more resented in places where previously they had been ignored or seen as unavoidable.
- Friday's reform package was therefore an unavoidable consequence of last year's breakdown.
- Drivers will face unavoidable delays while work is carried out on a new roundabout in Witham.
Synonyms
inescapable, inevitable, bound/sure to happen, unpreventable, inexorable, assured, certain, for sure, sure, fated, predestined, predetermined, preordained, ineluctable, necessary, compulsory, required, obligatory, mandatory, prescribed, out of one's hands
rare ineludible
Derivatives
unavoidability
- Inevitability means unavoidability, and if you think about what avoiding means, then you realize that in a deterministic world there's lots of avoidance.
- This leads me to believe that there is a certain amount of preference involved in being homosexual and it is not the unconditional unavoidability that homosexuals suggest.
- Williams has a comparable interrogative edge, a sense of the difficulty of doing justice to the complexity and sheer intractability of reality, and of the unavoidability of tragedy, conflict and fragmentariness.
unavoidableness
- infrasound
- infraspecific
- infrastructural
- infrastructure
- infrequency
- infrequent
- infrequently
- infringe
- infringement
- infringer
- in front
- in front of
- (at) full pelt
- at (full) strain
- at full stretch
- (at) full tilt
- at grade
- at grass
- Athabasca River
- Athabaskan
- at hack
- at half-cock
- athame
- Athanasian Creed
- Athanasius, St