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unavoidable

[ uhn-uh-voi-duh-buhl ]

/ ˌʌn əˈvɔɪ də bəl /

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adjective

unable to be avoided; inevitable: an unavoidable delay.

Origin of unavoidable

1570–80; un-¹ + avoidable

SYNONYMS FOR unavoidable

inescapable, unpreventable, fated, sure, certain.

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OTHER WORDS FROM unavoidable

un·a·void·a·bil·i·ty, un·a·void·a·ble·ness, noun un·a·void·a·bly, adverb

Words nearby unavoidable

unattributed, unau, unauthorized, unavailable, unavailing, unavoidable, unaware, unawares, unbacked, unbalance, unbalanced

Example sentences from the Web for unavoidable

Such an outcome, because it is unavoidable, must be anticipated.

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The manufacturing and sexualization of young starlets is a particularly obvious example of this unavoidable reality.

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Poignant because there could be no more powerful illustration of the unavoidable fact that anti-Semitism threatens us all.

Frazier Glenn Miller Would Kill Every Jew Like Me |Hampton Stevens |April 14, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Unknowability might be an unavoidable consequence of self-aware, self-improving software.

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For those of us living in large urban centers, irrational nostalgia is unavoidable.

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Therefore, our holy reformed branch foreseeing so formidable and unavoidable consequences do very well in abandoning the missions.

The Philippine Islands, 14931898, Volume XXXVI, 16491666 |Various
I fully expected to have left it a fortnight ago, but unavoidable delays have occurred.

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) |Isabella L. Bird
In all these cases the rule that nationality and language should go together, yields to unavoidable circumstances.

Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists |James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, William Ewart Gladstone, John Henry Newman and Leslie Stephen
For this change of plan I cannot account; no doubt it was owing to some unavoidable cause.

Soyer's Culinary Campaign |Alexis Soyer
Beginning with alchymy, some confusion of these classes is unavoidable; but the ground will clear for us as we advance.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions |Charles Mackay

British Dictionary definitions for unavoidable

unavoidable

/ (ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl) /

adjective

unable to be avoided; inevitable

law not capable of being declared null and void

Derived forms of unavoidable

unavoidability or unavoidableness, noun unavoidably, adverb