unavoidable
/ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/
unavoidable adjective: impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
Adjective
unavoidable (comparative more unavoidable, superlative most unavoidable)
- Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
- an unavoidable urge
- Synonyms:
- inescapable, inevitable
- 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 unavoidable1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
Noun
unavoidable (plural unavoidables)
- 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[…]1825, The London magazine, volume 12, page 490
unavoidable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
unavoidable in Hindi
- impossible to avoid
- अपरिहार्य aprihārya
unavoidable in Tamil
- தவிர்க்க இயலா, தவிர்க்க முடியாத, விலக்கமுடிய
unavoidable in Urdu
- اٹل, لازم, ناگریز
unavoidable in Bengali
- impossible to avoid
- ওয়াজিব ōẇajibo
More languagesFewer languages
- unavoidable in Telugu
- అనివార్యము anivāryamu, తప్పనిసరి tappanisari
- unavoidable in Malayalam
- ഒഴിവാക്കാനൊക്കാത്ത, ഒഴിവാക്കാനാവാത്ത, ഒഴിച്ചുകൂടാത്ത, നിയത
- unavoidable in Kannada
- ಅನಿವಾರ್ಯ, ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾಗದ, ನಿವಾರಿಸಲಾಗದ, ಬಿಟ್ಟುಕೊಡಲಾಗದ
- unavoidable in Arabic
- وَاجِب wājib
- unavoidable in Persian
- اجتنابناپذیر ejtenâb-nâpazir
Examples of unavoidable in a sentence
- Each loss then represents this unavoidable loss plus a regret (loss due to ignorance of Ө).
- Unfortunately, there will be situations where placement of a major obstruction in a gore is unavoidable.
- To save space, sub-subentries—where unavoidable—are generally run-on even in otherwise set-out indexes.
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Forms of unavoidable
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more unavoidable |
| superlative | most unavoidable |
| Noun | |
| plural | unavoidables |
Origin of unavoidable
From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable.
Words formed from unavoidable
Questions about unavoidable
- What does unavoidable mean?
- Unavoidable means impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
- What is unavoidable in Hindi?
- Unavoidable in Hindi is अपरिहार्य (aprihārya). See Unavoidable meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is unavoidable?
- Unavoidable can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce unavoidable?
- Unavoidable is pronounced /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/.
Words near unavoidable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unavoidable (page history and authors); unavoidable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unavoidable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అనివార్యము (Telugu) (page history and authors); unavoidable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unavoidable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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