unavoidable
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unavoidable (comparative more unavoidable, superlative most unavoidable)
- Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
- an unavoidable urge
- (law) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- A confirmation is allied to a release, being a conveyance of an estate or right in esse whereby a voidable estate is made unavoidable
Usage notes[edit]
- See usage notes at inevitable.
Synonyms[edit]
- (impossible to avoid): inescapable, inevitable
Antonyms[edit]
- (antonym(s) of “impossible to avoid”): avoidable
Translations[edit]
impossible to avoid
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Noun[edit]
unavoidable (plural unavoidables)
- Something that cannot be avoided.
- 1825, The London magazine, volume 12, page 490:
- Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least […]
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