unavoidable
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unavoidable
- /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/
Where it comes from
From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable.
adjective more unavoidable · most unavoidable
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Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
an unavoidable urge
Similar: inescapable, inevitable
- Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void. A confirmation is allied to a release, being a conveyance of an estate or right in esse whereby a voidable estate is made unavoidable
Opposite: avoidable
noun unavoidables
- Something that cannot be avoided. Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least[…]
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: ineluctable, inevitable, inescapable, inevitability, inevitably, inexorable, must-see, insurmountable, undeniable, unstoppable, irrevocable, inextricable, irreversible, irreducible, impossible, indisputable
adjective
Opposite: avoidable
Translations
Every language
adj impossible to avoid
| Español | impajaritable |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 不可避な fukahi na, やむを得ない yamu wo enai |
| 中文 | 不可避免的 bùkě bìmiǎn de, 免不了 miǎnbuliǎo |
| हिन्दी | अपरिहार्य aprihārya |
| Português | inevitável, incontornável |
| Français | inévitable |
| Deutsch | unausweichlich, unvermeidlich, unvermeidbar |
| Italiano | inevitabile |
| Ελληνικά | αναπόφευκτος anapófefktos, άφευκτος áfefktos |
| Română | inevitabil, de neocolit |
| Русский | неизбе́жный neizbéžnyj, немину́емый neminújemyj, неотврати́мый neotvratímyj, непредотврати́мый nepredotvratímyj |
| العربية | وَاجِب wājib |
| עברית | בלתי־נמנע biltí-nimná |
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