unavoidable
[uhn-uh-voi-duh-buh l]
- unable to be avoided; inevitable: an unavoidable delay.
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Origin of unavoidable
Synonyms
See more synonyms for unavoidable on Thesaurus.cominescapable, unpreventable, fated, sure, certain.
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Contemporary Examples
Such an outcome, because it is unavoidable, must be anticipated.
The manufacturing and sexualization of young starlets is a particularly obvious example of this unavoidable reality.
Poignant because there could be no more powerful illustration of the unavoidable fact that anti-Semitism threatens us all.
Unknowability might be an unavoidable consequence of self-aware, self-improving software.
This is What Happens When You Teach Machines the Power of Natural SelectionJames Barrat
February 1, 2014
For those of us living in large urban centers, irrational nostalgia is unavoidable.
Weren’t Those the Bad Old Days? The Poison of New York City NostalgiaMichael Moynihan
January 6, 2014
Historical Examples
The sky was still overcast, and the wet bushes were unavoidable.
What might be unavoidable to one less instructed, would be sin in her!
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
By trifling but unavoidable accidents, it was delayed a few hours.
Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
So he lay for a long time, thinking now of his unavoidable end and now of Pashenka.
Father SergiusLeo Tolstoy
When Mary made no answer, he added, “Your delays have all been unavoidable, my child!”
Dr. SevierGeorge W. Cable
unavoidable
- unable to be avoided; inevitable
- law not capable of being declared null and void
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