unavoidable

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

unavoidable (comparative more unavoidable, superlative most unavoidable)

1. Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.

   an unavoidable urge

2. (law) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
   • 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:

     A confirmation is allied to a release, being a conveyance of an estate or right in esse whereby a voidable estate is made unavoidable

Usage notes

• See usage notes at inevitable.

Synonyms

• (impossible to avoid): inescapable, inevitable

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “impossible to avoid”): avoidable

Translations

impossible to avoid

• Arabic: وَاجِب (ar) (wājib)
• Belarusian: непазбе́жны (be) (njepazbjéžny), няміну́чы (njaminúčy)
• Bengali: ওয়াজিব (bn) (ōẇajibo)
• Catalan: inevitable (ca)
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不可避免的 (bùkě bìmiǎn de), 免不了 (zh) (miǎnbuliǎo)

• Czech: nevyhnutelný (cs)
• Danish: uundgåelig
• Dutch: onvermijdelijk (nl), onontkoombaar (nl)
• Estonian: vältimatu (et)
• Faroese: óundansleppandi, óundankomandi
• Finnish: väistämätön (fi)
• French: inévitable (fr)
• Galician: inevitable (gl), inevitábel (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: unausweichlich (de), unvermeidlich (de), unvermeidbar (de)
• Greek: αναπόφευκτος (el) (anapófefktos)

  Ancient: ἀναπόδραστος (anapódrastos)

• Hebrew: בלתי־נמנע m (biltí-nimná)
• Hungarian: elkerülhetetlen (hu)
• Icelandic: óumflýjanlegur (is)
• Italian: inevitabile (it)
• Japanese: 不可避な (ja) (fukahi na), やむを得ない (ja) (yamu wo enai)
• Khmer: ដែលមិនអាចជៀសផុត (dael mɨn aac cieh pʰot)
• Latin: inevitabilis
• Latvian: nenovēršams, neizbēgams
• Old English: unforbugendlic
• Persian: اجتناب‌ناپذیر (fa) (ejtenâb-nâpazir)
• Polish: nieunikniony (pl) m
• Portuguese: inevitável (pt), incontornável
• Romanian: inevitabil (ro), de neocolit
• Russian: неизбе́жный (ru) (neizbéžnyj), немину́емый (ru) (neminújemyj), неотврати́мый (ru) (neotvratímyj), непредотврати́мый (ru) (nepredotvratímyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: do-sheachanta
• Slovak: nevyhnutný
• Spanish: inevitable (es)
• Ukrainian: немину́чий (nemynúčyj)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: anochel (cy), anocheladwy (cy), anorfod (cy)
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

Noun

unavoidable (plural unavoidables)

1. Something that cannot be avoided.
   • 1825, The London magazine, volume 12, page 490:

     Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least […]