inevitable

adjectif

1. 1

   Impossible to avoid or prevent.

   We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.

   It was inevitable that such a system should lead to the wide use of nicknames to distinguish identically named members of a family[…]

   To do the job thoroughly sentiment must be ignored and it seems inevitable that the famous Great Hall and the Doric Arch will have to be sacrificed to progress.

2. 2

   Predictable or always happening.

   My outburst met with the inevitable punishment.

   This horse and rider, with their free, rhythmical gallop, were the only moving things to be seen on the face of the flat country. They seemed, in the last sad light of evening, not to be there accidentally, but as an inevitable detail of the landscape.

   Every break seemed dangerous and Falcao clearly had the beating of Amorebieta. Others, being forced to stretch a foot behind them to control Arda Turan's 34th-minute cross, might simply have lashed a shot on the turn; Falcao, though, twisted back on to his left foot, leaving Amorebieta in a heap, and thumped in an inevitable finish – his 12th goal in 15 European matches this season.

nom

1. 1

   Something that is predictable, necessary, or cannot be avoided.

   I pass also the jealousies, the quarrels, the disgusts, that make the catholic questions and corn-bills of married life—and only dwell on one particular: some irresistible hat, some adorable cap, some exquisite robe, has rather elongated your milliner's list of inevitables...

   In the migratory patterns of the city's art scenes, there are two inevitables: First, that neighbourhoods where art makes its home become instantly more attractive; and second, because of it, art won't be at home for long.

Formes

pluriel

inevitables

comparatif

more inevitable

superlatif

most inevitable