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inevitable adjective & noun. LME.
[Latin inevitabilis, formed as IN-3 + evitabilis EVITABLE.]
A. adjective.
Unable to be avoided; unavoidable. LME.
G. Greene For the first time he realised the pain inevitable in any human relationship. B. Emecheta She would delay the hearing of it until it became inevitable.
Bound or sure to occur or appear; colloq. tiresomely familiar. L19.
D. Jacobson A large china vase, containing the inevitable pair of dead flies. L. Gordon She tended to dramatize the inevitable disappointments that attend high aspiration.
b. Of character-building, plot-development, etc.: so true to nature etc. as to preclude alternative treatment or solution. E20.
Notes & Queries The 'inevitable' phrase, that gift to the world past all praise.
b. noun. A thing which cannot be escaped or avoided; an inevitable fact, event, truth, etc.; a person who or thing which is bound to be used, employed, etc. M19.
inevita'bility noun M17.
inevitableness noun E17.
inevitably adverb LME.