Synonyms for unavoidable
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Inevitable — impossible to avoid; bound to happen
inevitable, ineluctable, inescapable, certain, necessary, fatal, inexorable, unpreventable, unescapable, inevasible, undodgeable, irresistible
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Definitions
- adj. 1
Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
Related words
- Word family
- unavoidability unavoidableness unavoidably
Example sentences
- certain It is certain that Lucy will marry the pop singer.
- inevitable The Foreign Minister said that war was inevitable.
- inescapable Tom ended up in an inescapable situation.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| unavoidable | steady | |
| certain | falling | |
| inevitable | steady | |
| inescapable | steady | |
| ineluctable | rising | |
| unshunnable | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- fatal2
- 7 letters
- certain2
- 9 letters
- necessary4
- 10 letters
- inevitable5, inexorable5, inevasible
- 11 letters
- inescapable5, ineluctable, unescapable, undodgeable, unshunnable
- 12 letters
- irresistible5
- 13 letters
- unpreventable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fatal2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- inévitable
- Italiano
- inevitabile
- Deutsch
- unausweichlich