INEVITABLE
Dictionary entry overview: What does inevitable mean?
• INEVITABLE (noun)
The noun INEVITABLE has 1 sense:
1. an unavoidable event
Familiarity information: INEVITABLE used as a noun is very rare.
• INEVITABLE (adjective)
The adjective INEVITABLE has 2 senses:
1. incapable of being avoided or prevented
2. invariably occurring or appearing
Familiarity information: INEVITABLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INEVITABLE (noun)
Meaning:
An unavoidable event
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Context example:
don't argue with the inevitable
Hypernyms ("inevitable" is a kind of...):
destiny; fate (an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future)
• INEVITABLE (adjective)
Meaning:
Incapable of being avoided or prevented
Context example:
the inevitable result
Similar:
fatal; fateful (controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined)
ineluctable; inescapable; unavoidable (impossible to avoid or evade:)
necessary (unavoidably determined by prior circumstances)
Antonym:
evitable (capable of being avoided or warded off)
Meaning:
Invariably occurring or appearing
Context example:
the inevitable changes of the seasons
Similar:
predictable (capable of being foretold)
