unavoidable

Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.

Adjective

  1. Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
    • an unavoidable urge
  2. 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 - 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify...

Origin

From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable.

Forms

more unavoidable most unavoidable

Synonyms

inescapable inevitable

Antonyms

avoidable

Noun

  1. 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[…] - 1825, The London magazine, volume 12, page 490:

Forms

unavoidables