Word Finder - inevitable

definition

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

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Impossible to avoid or prevent.

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We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.

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Predictable, or always happening.

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My outburst met with the inevitable punishment.

Jessi drew out the inevitable by taking her time to select her food.

I didn't think the decision was inevitable.

There will be inevitable consequences, which mold the future.

It is inevitable that someone will try to offer a better price.

It is inevitable that mistakes will occasionally occur.

Got word the inevitable is coming in three months or so.

To see if there's something I can do in order to prevent the inevitable, of course.

It's inevitable that two people living in the same house are going to be at odds sometimes, but from now on I'll never feel completely safe.

He braced himself for the battle with his fangs and waited for the inevitable pain from fighting to keep them at bay.

A trip up to Reesside seems inevitable to resolve the issue.

The success of Agrippa's brief reign had revived the hopes of the Jewish nationalists, and concessions only retarded the inevitable insurrection.

Do you understand the inevitable trade-off between growth and equity?

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

He met his inevitable demise.

I would ask that you bestow defenses upon them to thwart his inevitable attack.

I know this is a controversial forecast, and to many people a very depressing one, but I think it is both inevitable and good.

After reading my arguments, you may or may not believe the future I describe is inevitable, as I say it is.

People accustomed to think in that way forget, or do not know, the inevitable conditions which always limit the activities of any commander in chief.

Meanwhile, during the negotiations, the queen's troops had been deserting; a surrender became inevitable, and Bothwell returned to Dunbar, parting from Mary for ever.

The inevitable consequences ensued.

The decisive success of Hastings's administration alone postponed the inevitable solution.

It was an inevitable corollary that what should be a corporate benefit has just become a corporate exposure!

I'm accepting the inevitable.

But the inevitable opposition of the nobility to this policy was not mitigated by the fact that it was carried out by a churchman; the result was to embitter the antagonism of the secular party to the church and to concentrate it upon Wolsey's head.

Somewhere in this big expansive timeframe the eventual formation of Stan's Cafe became inevitable.

The inevitable result was that only an occasional blockaderunner could succeed in escaping detection and attack.

Ordinarily carbon is used as the electrode material, but when carbon comes in contact at high temperatures with any metal that is capable of forming a carbide a certain amount of combination between them is inevitable, and the carbon thus introduced impairs the mechanical properties of the ultimate metallic product.

In England the inevitable conflict of interests between the new mercantile power, growing conscious of its national strength, and the old, standing insistant on the letter of its privileges, was postponed by the factional discord out of which the Hansa in 1474 dexterously snatched a renewal of its rights.

In these circumstances only the rivalry of the European powers that had interests in Tunisia protracted from year to year the inevitable revolution.

The deficit in the treasury made it inevitable that the gold reserve should be used to meet current expenses.

The more strenuous his resistance the sooner he yields to the inevitable force applied by himself.

I guess there was death—but not scary death—only inevitable, the-time-has-come kind of passing.

Change looks inevitable; we need to address the end result with open negotiation.

The news of the ratification of peace with Spain brought at once the thought that an offensive plan of campaign in Piedmont was thenceforth inevitable.

They had torn men loose from the ancestral custom of home to walk in new ways and see new things and hear new thoughts; and some broadening of view, some lessening in the intensity of the old one-sidedness, was the inevitable result.

This made war inevitable; though Batthyany hurried to Vienna to try and arrange a settlement.

It was inevitable that in doing so he should incur unpopularity in many quarters.

Follow the drama as the artists pursue their dreams and experience life's inevitable challenges along the way.

Matters were not bettered by the Act of Union signed in a cellar in High Street in 1707, amidst the execrations of the people, and it was not till the hopes of the Jacobites were blasted at Culloden (1746) that the townsfolk began to accept the inevitable.

But after the conflict became inevitable his sympathies were wholly with the North, because the South was fighting for slavery.

The fighting in Telnitz was perhaps the hardest of the whole battle, but the inevitable retreat, every part of which was now under the fire of the French on the plateau, was terribly costly.

In particular, when disagreement seemed inevitable on the question of representation, he, with Roger Sherman, proposed what is known as the "Connecticut Compromise," by which the Federal legislature was made to consist of two houses, the upper having equal representation from each state, the lower being chosen on the basis of population.

Disturbances arose, and serious collision with the French troops seemed inevitable.

A reaction against this extravagance was perhaps inevitable, and criticism has of late been little occupied with the poet.

An inevitable change is from this time to be traced in the topics of Gladstone's parliamentary speaking.

After a careful survey of Mr Gladstone's life, enlightened by personal observation, it is inevitable to attempt some analysis.

A failure to solve the problems of metaphysics must always remain a failure, in spite of all protestations that it was inevitable; and it in no wise justifies an advance to so selfcontradictory an asylum ignorantiae as the Unknowable.

When hostilities became inevitable, acting in conjunction with Captain (later General) Nathaniel Lyon, he suddenly transferred the arms in the Federal arsenal at St Louis to Alton, Illinois, and a few days later (May ro, 1861) surrounded and captured a force of state guards which had been stationed at Camp Jackson in the suburbs of St Louis with the intention of seizing the arsenal.

The Pharisees, who regarded his rule as an inevitable penalty for the sins of the people, he encouraged.

This was inevitable in the absence of trustworthy information on an adequate scale, and from the immediately practical aims of the writers.