What does Inevitable mean?

Definitions for Inevitable
ɪnˈɛv ɪ tə bəlin·evitable

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. inevitableadjective

    an unavoidable event

    "don't argue with the inevitable"

  2. inevitableadjective

    incapable of being avoided or prevented

    "the inevitable result"

  3. inevitableadjective

    invariably occurring or appearing

    "the inevitable changes of the seasons"

Wiktionary

  1. inevitablenoun

    Something that is predictable, or cannot be avoided.

  2. inevitableadjective

    impossible to avoid or prevent

    We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.

  3. inevitableadjective

    predictable, or always happening

    My outburst met with the inevitable punishment.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. INEVITABLEadjective

    Unavoidable; not to be escaped.

    Etymology: inevitable, Fr. inevitabilis, Lat.

    I had a pass with him: he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal motion, that it is inevitable. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

    Fate inevitable
    Subdues us. John Milton.

    Since my inevitable death you know,
    You safely unavailing pity show. John Dryden, Aurengzebe.

Wikipedia

  1. Inevitable

    Inevitable is a Latin rock song co-written and performed by Colombian-born singer Shakira, released as the third single from her 1998 multi-platinum album Dónde Están los Ladrones?.

ChatGPT

  1. inevitable

    Inevitable refers to something that is certain to happen and cannot be prevented or avoided. It is a condition or outcome that is unavoidable or destined to occur.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inevitableadjective

    not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain

  2. Inevitableadjective

    irresistible

  3. Etymology: [L. inevitabilis: cf. F. invitable. See In- not, and Evitable.]

Wikidata

  1. Inevitable

    In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, inevitables are extraplanar magical constructs.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Inevitable

    in-ev′it-a-bl, adj. not able to be evaded or avoided: that cannot be escaped: irresistible.—n. Inev′itableness.—adv. Inev′itably.—The inevitable, that which is sure to happen. [Fr.,—L. inevitabilisin, not, evitabilis, avoidable—evitāre, to avoid—e, out of, vitāre, to avoid.]

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Inevitable' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3453

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Inevitable' in Adjectives Frequency: #473

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Inevitable in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Inevitable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Inevitable in a Sentence

  1. House Democrats:

    This information comes on the heels of reporting that OSC is also looking into Secretary Pompeo's stated commitment to rush out more of Hillary Clinton's emails by Election Day and as the Secretary has misused State Department resources on his speech tour of swing states, as we get closer to both this year's election and Secretary Pompeo own inevitable return to electoral politics, Secretary Pompeo has grown even more brazen in misusing the State Department and the taxpayer dollars that fund State Department as vehicles for the Administration's, and Secretary Pompeo own, political ambitions.

  2. Bernie Sanders:

    As many of you know, we began this campaign about nine months ago. And when we began, we were 50 points behind. We were 50 points behind the inevitable, the inevitable Democratic nominee! well, guess what, that inevitable candidate ain't so inevitable today.

  3. Thomas Wolfe:

    Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.

  4. Taylor Swift:

    I wanted it to feel like their falling together was inevitable and their falling apart was just as inevitable, they couldn’t stop from colliding, and they couldn’t stop from being dismantled.

  5. Kevin Kumala:

    The government is supporting us and we are working with them to create a roadmap to be plastic-free by 2018, on an island like Bali it is becoming inevitable that they have to execute right away.

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