ineluctable
UK/ɪn.ɪˈlʌk.tə.bəl/
ineluctable adjective: impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable, irresistible.
Adjective
ineluctable (comparative more ineluctable, superlative most ineluctable)
- Impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable, irresistible.
- God indeed (if it please him) can by his absolute power over his Creature, make him act this thing, or take that thing, by ineluctable Necessity, and whether he will or no.1655, Thomas Pierce, A Correct Copy of Some Notes concerning Gods Decrees, "A Paraenesis to the Reader," chapter 4, item 50
- They have come under the yoke of ineluctable slavery.1797, Alexander Shiels, A Hind Let Loose, Calton (Glasgow), page 541
- Synonyms:
- avoidless, certain, fatal, foregone, impreventable, inescapable, inevitable, inexorable, irresistible, natural
- Antonyms:
- eluctable
ineluctable meaning in Urdu and Bengali
ineluctable in Urdu
- ناگزیر
ineluctable in Bengali
- অনিবার্য, অলঙ্ঘনীয়
Examples of ineluctable in a sentence
- I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC:
- For the self-regulating market was now believed to follow from the inexorable laws of Nature, and the unshackling of the market to be an ineluctable necessity.1957 [1944], Karl Polanyi, chapter 10, in The Great Transformation, Beacon Press: Boston, page 127:
- Out in the street, under the reddening afternoon sun, a spectacle of ineluctable commerce greeted her.1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
- […] The first will be the ineluctable fact of climate change.2007 July 6, Marina Hyde, “The artists formerly known as huge carbon footprints”, in The Guardian:
Synonyms of ineluctable
- certain
- foregone
- impreventable
- inescapable
- inevitable
- inexorable
- irresistible
- natural
- necessary
- predictable
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Forms of ineluctable
| comparative | more ineluctable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most ineluctable |
Origin of ineluctable
From Middle French inéluctable (whence in- + e- and -able), from Latin inēlūctābilis, from in- + ēlūctor (“struggle out”) + -bilis.
Words formed from ineluctable
Questions about ineluctable
- What does ineluctable mean?
- Ineluctable means impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable, irresistible.
- What is ineluctable in Urdu?
- Ineluctable in Urdu is ناگزیر. See Ineluctable meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use ineluctable in a sentence?
- I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back.
- What part of speech is ineluctable?
- Ineluctable is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce ineluctable?
- Ineluctable is pronounced /ɪn.ɪˈlʌk.tə.bəl/ (UK).
Words near ineluctable in the dictionary
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