| 单词 | ineluctable |
| 释义 | ineluctable (once / 42980 pages) adj Huh? Are you scratching your head at this word? The ineluctable conclusion is that you haven't the faintest idea what it means. Ineluctable means impossible to avoid. A five syllable beauty like ineluctable is obviously not the kind of word you throw around in daily speech. It's far more often used as a written word, as in the common phrase "ineluctable conclusion." Used interchangeably with the more common unavoidable, though ineluctable implies an unsuccessful attempt to battle against whatever is ineluctable: after all, it comes from the Latin word "to struggle." WORD FAMILYineluctable: ineluctability, ineluctably USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s hard to overstate how absurd the look was, and yet, as with your multi-shearling dress, it had an ineluctable logic to it. New York Times(Oct 05, 2016) Take in fewer calories than your body burns and by the ineluctable laws of math, you will drop pounds. New York Times(Jan 28, 2015) Surely these nineteenth-century communities have much to teach us about daring to imagine alternatives, about interrupting what may seem like the ineluctable march of history. The New Yorker(Sep 26, 2016) adj impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion" an ineluctable destiny Syn inescapable, unavoidable inevitable incapable of being avoided or prevented |
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