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UNAVOIDABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Impossible to avoid or evade
Example:
an unavoidable accident
Synonyms:
ineluctable; inescapable; unavoidable
Classified under:
Similar:
inevitable (incapable of being avoided or prevented)
Context examples:
Between these two irreconcilable conclusions: the one, that what I felt was general and unavoidable; the other, that it was particular to me, and might have been different: I balanced curiously, with no distinct sense of their opposition to each other.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Though her late conversation with her daughter-in-law had made her resolve on remaining at Norland no longer than was unavoidable, it had not produced the smallest effect on her in that point to which it principally tended.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
