unavoidable

[uhn-uh-voi-duh-buhl]

adjective

1. unable to be avoided; inevitable.

   an unavoidable delay.

   Synonyms: certain, sure, fated, unpreventable, inescapable

unavoidable

/ ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl /

adjective

1. unable to be avoided; inevitable

2. law not capable of being declared null and void

Other Word Forms

• unavoidability noun
• unavoidableness noun
• unavoidably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of unavoidable¹

1570–80; un- ¹ + avoidable ( def. )

Example Sentences

"It's a smart, responsive solution for spaces like clinics, classrooms or offices where close contact is unavoidable."

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Baroness Hallett added that the "mistakes" of February and March 2020 were repeated and "a return to lockdown had once again become unavoidable".

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Baroness Hallett found the UK was too late to consider the idea of a lockdown to suppress the disease in 2020, by which time the need for stringent restrictions had become "unavoidable".

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The report finds that by the time possibility of lockdown was first considered across the UK, it was already too late and had become unavoidable.

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It said by the end of March 2020 a mandatory lockdown "had become unavoidable".

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Related Words

• certain 
• inescapable 
• inevitable 
• necessary 
• obligatory