Find the word definition

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inevitably
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
affect
▪ Mystics often have different beliefs which inevitably affect their experience.
▪ To be realistic, government regula-tions that impose limits on media property ownership inevitably affect media content.
▪ The quality of the relationship inevitably affects the caring process.
▪ Today's climate of difficulties and problems, stresses and strains, inevitably affects our lives in many ways.
▪ The big producers do not hang turkeys - which inevitably affects the flavour - because they are plucked and cleaned by machine.
arise
▪ If it is not rape to threaten a woman other than with immediate violence, questions will inevitably arise about other situations.
▪ The subordinates acknowledged that some conflicts would inevitably arise, no matter how well the manager maintained the web of relationships.
▪ Yet each time a house is acquired in the community the same problems inevitably arise with local people.
▪ Where business barged in and tried to set the agenda and the schools participated on a begrudging basis, problems inevitably arose.
▪ Issues inevitably arise too over the representativeness of the relatively small samples which it is possible to involve in such studies.
become
▪ She inevitably became pregnant and conveniently, Mrs Tawell died.
▪ The best lawyers of the day inevitably became involved with the railroads.
▪ Instead of being enchanted, we inevitably become disenchanted with programming which only offers a choice between formulaic sitcoms or worthless docusoaps.
▪ This is because where selfishness brings higher rewards than altruism, selfish individuals leave more descendants, so altruists inevitably become extinct.
▪ When such a programme develops the school inevitably becomes more open to the community.
▪ In the view of many Democrats, Senate Republicans with Lott at the helm will inevitably become more hard-edged and doctrinaire.
▪ In future, job creation will inevitably become one of the main indicators of success.
▪ If your attention is not focused, it inevitably becomes the territory into which your mind will wander.
bring
▪ But doing that inevitably brings the risk back into what was a risk-free investment.
▪ This inevitably brings into focus the procedure for the planning, monitoring and control of public expenditure.
▪ A more critical approach would inevitably bring about this desirable consequence; it would improve communication.
cause
▪ The influx of large numbers of construction workers had inevitably caused disruption in the nearby villages, especially the closest, Stogursey.
▪ The judge dismissed arguments by Collins that release of the pretrial hearing documents would inevitably cause jurors to learn about their contents.
▪ However, subsequent excavations at Maiden Castle, Arikamedu and Charsadda have inevitably caused many of his fundamental assumptions to be refuted.
▪ Making space for an unborn child inevitably causes pain and discomfort.
come
▪ The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief, and it is not altogether surprising that it does.
▪ Trouble, of course, inevitably comes back to them.
▪ Consequently, in the transition epoch, the case of the imaginary form inevitably comes close to the typical case.
▪ When he falls for a white girl they inevitably come up against parental intransigence and social hostility.
▪ Since I acquired the books entirely at random some inevitably came from older libraries which had closed.
▪ These inevitably came to influence our own structures of significance and were made apparent by changes in our own subculture of style.
▪ Although the day will inevitably come, we have yet to secure legislation appropriate to our real needs.
create
▪ Good interviewers will try and prevent you from feeling overwhelmed but being outnumbered inevitably creates a certain tension.
▪ No party would be able to shelter behind the barriers inevitably created by the divided profession.
▪ Markets have always sought out the most profitable locations, and this has inevitably created problems for declining areas.
end
▪ Tourists inevitably end up having to buy either wellies or flip-flops when the weather does something perverse.
▪ Their efforts inevitably end in arguments-the more work my parents undertake, the more high-strung they become.
▪ Any such explanation must inevitably end with a declaration of his honourable intentions towards Clare.
▪ Responsibility for the outrageous pit-closure programme inevitably ends on Michael Heseltine's desk.
fall
▪ Conversely, political integration will inevitably fall apart if there is no financial benefit.
▪ As a result of diminishing confidence and conflicting internal impulses, the organization inevitably falls into patterns of self-defeating organizational behavior.
▪ The problem is that a large number of environmental black spots inevitably fall within the public sector.
▪ Even in the best of years, Journal news coverage inevitably falls short of perfection.
▪ Since they inevitably fall far short of this ideal, their social arrangements will be condemned.
▪ Meanwhile in the cabinet debate over spending cuts the chancellor's eye had inevitably fallen on defence.
▪ She finally convinced him by trying to run into a throw, inevitably falling over and spraining her ankle.
find
▪ As the two firms expanded they inevitably found themselves close to each other's turf.
▪ Good writing is inevitably found under it.
▪ To every argument she put forward he would inevitably find a counter, and she had no doubt that could go on for ever.
▪ Amy tried to make light of it to Amelia and Muriel, who inevitably found out.
▪ If the distinction were not acknowledged, faith would inevitably find itself eroded and embarrassed by the ineluctable facts of history.
follow
▪ More than satisfied, the Immigration officer issued a temporary document pending the enquiries that must inevitably follow.
▪ The second option is separation or divorce with the trauma and pain that inevitably follow.
▪ A struggle for existence inevitably follows from the high rate at which all organic beings tend to increase.
▪ Government intervention would inevitably follow if Governments had reason to believe that their interests were not being fairly served.
▪ Suicide will inevitably follow, but think of all the fun you will have getting there!
involve
▪ The most exciting cases, however, inevitably involve novelty of both, integrated together.
▪ Creativity inevitably involves taking risks, and, in Great Groups, it is understood that the risk taker will sometimes stumble.
▪ Editors must, then, exercise a choice and exercising a choice inevitably involves ignoring certain options.
▪ Movement inevitably involves friction, and friction inevitably means disputes.
▪ Such occasions will inevitably involve grief and the shedding of tears, but there is much to be said for that.
▪ Climate accounts for the alternation of vast areas of grass and trees which inevitably involve different ways of life.
▪ Do pay extra for daytime babysitting; it inevitably involves more work.
▪ Meetings Involvement with a political party will at some stage inevitably involve meetings.
lead
▪ This is a foolish policy which inevitably leads to a waste of nursing resources.
▪ Other studies have found that yo-yo dieting inevitably leads to bingeing and depression.
▪ The practice of ahi inevitably leads to Truth.
▪ Devastating crises may shortly overtake us, leading inevitably to a lapse into barbarism.
▪ The overwhelming temptation and the external pressures will inevitably lead the other way; to take a quick decision and move on.
▪ Inevitably the conversation would turn to politics, and that inevitably led to heated arguments.
▪ Publication would almost inevitably lead to pressures for both more and larger Committees, and for disclosure of information about their activities.
▪ Too many people, the reasoning went, led inevitably to poverty and unemployment.
mean
▪ The Government's position is that a tax-raising power in the technical sense inevitably means that taxes will be raised.
▪ Movement inevitably involves friction, and friction inevitably means disputes.
▪ This then inevitably means that by the early spring it is worth working the same ground a second time.
▪ Studying about religion inevitably means studying ideas.
▪ As we saw with long-term insurance funds this inevitably means an emphasis upon company securities.
▪ That inevitably means that you will owe more money than you already do.
raise
▪ The cultural move from an autonomous and independent sculpture back to the public sphere inevitably raises the spectre of popular culture.
▪ Proposals of this magnitude inevitably raise serious equity and class questions that need to be addressed.
▪ It will inevitably raise issues about the transparency and accountability of a political system that has changed little since the postwar settlement.
▪ The paper concludes with some speculations about the history of the species which inevitably raises questions about relationships within the genus Nucella.
▪ The government's social conscience inevitably raises questions about the balance between growth and welfare.
▪ The sequence, as it is described, inevitably raises questions.
result
▪ Often whole sites have been filled which will inevitably result in expensive foundation design.
▪ Hometheater systems inevitably result in a cluster of cables and power cords.
▪ The issue of equities inevitably results in a spread in ownership initially.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Such bad economic conditions inevitably lead to more crime.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inevitably

Inevitably \In*ev"i*ta*bly\, adv. Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly.

Inevitably thou shalt die.
--Milton.

How inevitably does immoderate laughter end in a sigh!
--South.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inevitably

mid-15c., from inevitable + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
inevitably

adv. 1 In a manner that is impossible to avoid or prevent. 2 As usual; predictably; as expected.

WordNet
inevitably
  1. adv. in such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: necessarily, of necessity, needs]

  2. by necessity; "the new council was inescapably of political meaning" [syn: inescapably, ineluctably, unavoidably]

Usage examples of "inevitably".

When in a meeting with Lord Carmarthen, Adams summoned all his old intensity to warn that the attitude of the British, if continued, would inevitably strengthen commercial ties between the United States and France, it had no effect whatever.

Even batches of foreign almonds that inevitably contain a few bitter almonds cannot be brought here.

This wild and clandestine worship might have gone on for a long time, but inevitably, the weight of antichance fell against them.

Inevitably, as a stream flows around a rock, the main thrusts of the Allies had bypassed the hilly, forested Ardennes region, located at roughly the midpoint on the Western Front.

Cedar Key, the tourist and the retired had finally found Timber Bay-just as, inevitably, every square foot of the state except the state parks is going to be found and asphalted and painted with yellow parking lines.

Inevitably when this kind of incident happened any hotel throbbed backstairs like a jungle telegraph.

If we can show the Egyptians that we have caused foreign policy in Bonn to change course, our stock in Cairo must inevitably rise sharply.

Inevitably, there were card games, checkers, and chess in the bunks, and probably bull sessions.

In response to this, almost inevitably, the defending forces on Ceres concentrated their power at that point.

Now the terraces overflowed with Cincinnatians, each inevitably surrounded by a crowd of curious Norleaners.

Because of the time it would inevitably take to organise, a congress that some had called for was never convened, but in compensation there were colloquia, seminars, round-table discussions, some open to the public, others held behind closed doors.

Her letter had been delivered by hand from the mail ship by special courier, inevitably a relation of their compradore, Gordon Chen.

And somebody also understood that Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties would inevitably grow westward as haphazardly as fungus, and with even less regard for their mother host.

Inevitably, Major - de Coverley was among them, seated straight as a ramrod in a jeep he had obtained from somewhere, glancing neither right nor left as the artillery fire burst about his invincible head and lithe young infantrymen with carbines went loping up along the sidewalks in the shelter of burning buildings or fell dead in doorways.

And now the letters must inevitably be used as the corpus delicti at a confrontation.