inevitable

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
inevitable
    adj 1: incapable of being avoided or prevented; "the inevitable
           result" [ant: {avertable}, {avertible}, {avoidable},
           {evitable}]
    2: invariably occurring or appearing; "the inevitable changes of
       the seasons"
    n 1: an unavoidable event; "don't argue with the inevitable"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inevitable \In*ev"i*ta*ble\, a. [L. inevitabilis: cf. F.
   in['e]vitable. See {In-} not, and {Evitable}.]
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   1. Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable;
      certain. "The inevitable hour." --Gray.
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            It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted
            in the nature of things.              --Burke.
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   2. Irresistible. "Inevitable charms." --Dryden.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "inevitable":
      absolute, apodictic, appointed, binding, bound, certain, clear,
      clear and distinct, clear as day, compulsory, conclusive, decided,
      decisive, definite, destined, determinate, devoted, dictated,
      doomed, fatal, fated, fateful, foredoomed, foreordained,
      imperative, in store, in the cards, indefeasible, ineluctable,
      ineludible, inescapable, inevasible, inexorable, inflexible,
      involuntary, irresistible, irrevocable, mandatory, marked,
      necessary, obligatory, ordained, perfectly sure, positive,
      predestined, predetermined, relentless, required, resistless,
      settled, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, sure-enough, true,
      unambiguous, unavoidable, uncontrollable, undeflectable,
      unequivocal, unevadable, univocal, unmistakable, unpreventable,
      unstoppable, unyielding, written

    

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