Synonyms for inevitable
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Unavoidable — predictable or always happening
unavoidable, ineluctable, necessary, certain, inexorable, fateful, sure, unpreventable, fatal dated rare
2. Inescapable — impossible to avoid or prevent
Other
imminent, predictable, ultimate, inevasible, impreventable, undodgeable, avoidless rare
Definitions
- adj. 1
Impossible to avoid or prevent.
We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.
- adj. 2
Predictable or always happening.
My outburst met with the inevitable punishment.
Related words
- Word family
- inevitability inevitableness inevitably
- Is a kind of
- possible
Example sentences
- certain It is certain that Lucy will marry the pop singer.
- necessary Close observation is necessary for the experiment.
- unavoidable Unavoidable circumstances kept me from doing that.
- irresistible With this perfume, you're absolutely irresistible.
- inescapable Tom ended up in an inescapable situation.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| inevitable | steady | |
| certain | falling | |
| necessary | falling | |
| unavoidable | steady | |
| ineluctable | rising | |
| irresistible | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- sure1
- 5 letters
- fatal2
- 7 letters
- certain2, natural3, fateful2
- 8 letters
- ultimate3, imminent3
- 9 letters
- necessary4, avoidless
- 10 letters
- inexorable5, inevasible
- 11 letters
- predictable4, unavoidable5, inescapable5, ineluctable, unescapable, undodgeable
- 12 letters
- irresistible5
- 13 letters
- unpreventable, impreventable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fatal2 = 2 syllables).