inescapable

[in-uh-skey-puh-buhl]

adjective

1. incapable of being escaped, ignored, or avoided; ineluctable.

   inescapable responsibilities.

inescapable

/ ˌɪnɪˈskeɪpəbəl /

adjective

1. incapable of being escaped or avoided

Other Word Forms

• inescapableness noun
• inescapably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of inescapable¹

First recorded in 1785–95; in- ³ + escapable ( def. )

Example Sentences

A sense of charismatic presence — the material manifestation of an abstract idea — is inescapable.

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Last year’s inescapable “Wicked” and its new follow-up finale, “Wicked: For Good,” present an entirely different, far more frustrating predicament than the one Warner Bros. faced in the late aughts.

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Still, the viral video is apparently inescapable, as his daughter, who is about to turn three, will have a Baby Shark-themed birthday party.

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While the spectre of Bale is inescapable with Wales, Johnson had another impossible act to follow at Spurs, joining in the same transfer window in which Harry Kane left for Bayern Munich.

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Then came the tsunami, an inescapable wall of water that killed tens of thousands.

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Related Words

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