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INEVITABLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An unavoidable event
Example:
don't argue with the inevitable
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("inevitable" is a kind of...):
destiny; fate (an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incapable of being avoided or prevented
Example:
the inevitable result
Classified under:
Similar:
fatal; fateful (controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined)
ineluctable; inescapable; unavoidable (impossible to avoid or evade)
necessary (unavoidably determined by prior circumstances)
Antonym:
evitable (capable of being avoided or warded off)
Derivation:
inevitability; inevitableness (the quality of being unavoidable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Invariably occurring or appearing
Example:
the inevitable changes of the seasons
Classified under:
Similar:
predictable (capable of being foretold)
Derivation:
inevitability; inevitableness (the quality of being unavoidable)
Context examples:
Coarseness and savagery are the inevitable results.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Nevertheless, at table, the inevitable reaction and exhaustion consequent upon the hard day seized hold of him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Unfortunately, we found that there was no way to avoid the inevitable hangover just by favouring one order over another.
(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)
She is the most harmless and often the most useful of mortals, but she is the inevitable inciter of crime in others.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If the monster executed his threat, death was inevitable; yet, again, I considered whether my marriage would hasten my fate.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The inevitable variety in customs, attitudes, practices, and behaviors that exists among groups of individuals from different ethnic, racial, or national backgrounds who come into contact within a social unit, organization, or population.
(Cultural Diversity, NCI Thesaurus)
If, in the moments I and my pupil spent with him, I lacked spirits and sank into inevitable dejection, he became even gay.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At last, when you had all formed your inevitable and totally erroneous conclusions, you departed for the hotel, and I was left alone.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
According to the authors, these results support the benefit of physical activity on cognition and dementia progression, even in individuals with autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD), a rare genetically-driven form of the disease in which the development of dementia at a relatively young age is inevitable.
(Rare Alzheimer's Disease Patients May Delay Cognitive Decline with Exercise, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
And in short, she said more than her husband could long withstand, and as none of the others could oppose when he gave way, there was no help for it; the change of Mary for Anne was inevitable.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
