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unavoidable

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl//

Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.

adjective

  1. 1

    Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.

    an unavoidable urge

  2. 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

Etymology

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

noun

  1. 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[…]

Forms

plural
unavoidables
comparative
more unavoidable
superlative
most unavoidable
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).