Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inescapable \In`es*cap"a*ble\, a. Not escapable.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Not escapable; that cannot be avoided.
WordNet
adj. impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"; "an ineluctable destiny"; "an unavoidable accident" [syn: ineluctable, unavoidable]
Wikipedia
"Inescapable" is a song by Australian recording artist Jessica Mauboy. It was written by Diane Warren and produced by Youngboyz, Anthony Egizii and David Musumeci. "Inescapable" was sent to Australian contemporary hit radio on 4 July 2011, and was released for digital download on 15 July 2011 as the first single from the deluxe edition of Mauboy's second studio album Get 'Em Girls. The song's lyrics revolve around "a relationship all gone wrong but also a celebration."
"Inescapable" peaked at number four on the ARIA Singles Chart and became Mauboy's highest-charting single since 2008's " Burn". It was certified double platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The accompanying music video was directed by Mark Alston and features scenes of Mauboy on different coloured backdrops and a dedication to Jay Dee Springbett.
Inescapable is a Canadian 2012 drama thriller film written and directed by Ruba Nadda, starring Alexander Siddig, Marisa Tomei, and Joshua Jackson about a former Syrian intelligence officer Adib (Alexander Siddig) who becomes embroiled in a cat and mouse chase in locating his photographer daughter arrested on suspicion of being an Israeli spy while visiting Damascus while evading capture by corrupt government agents.
Usage examples of "inescapable".
What has always moved me most in the Arthurian myth is the deep sense of loss that informs the story, the awareness of inescapable tragedy, not merely on a personal level, as in a tragic Greek or Shakespearean play, but on a cosmic plane, the plane of myth.
Already I was aware that the interlocked radiator grilles of our cars formed the model of an inescapable and perverse union between us.
I suspected, even if coils of rope and heavy chains might be heaped upon me, or I should be confined in cells or kennels, the most complete and inescapable shackle placed upon me would nonetheless be always that delicate, feminine design, that small, lovely flower, resembling a rose, burned into the flesh of my upper left thigh.
He knew that in a short while the Invaders would discontinue their attempts to make an immediate capture, would conclude that he had found shelter, and would fall back on an inescapable slow search that could not help but root him out sooner or later soon, if he stayed this near the headquarters that would be the focal point for the expanding boxes of a square search.
The ancient history of glassmaking, a craft and an art with roots that reached back thousands of years, was an inescapable part of the allure, she thought.
All the research carried out to date all over the world had arrived at the same inescapable conclusion, namely that an emphatic chemical command to abort was being passed to the chorionic gonadotrophin effectively preventing the corpus luteum from developing.
What did it matter that divergence from type had long been identified as the inescapable trait of those maladapted to their surroundings?
These inconceivably gigantic and mysterious masses had existed in space for an infinitely long time, secretly drawing into their inert ocean everything that came within reach of the inescapable tentacles of their gravity.
Therefore, we have reached the inescapable conclusion that fantasy is qualitatively deficient.
What is not common knowledge is that next day, with the house-wreckers already at work on the roof of the Pierre Ronsard, Myron returned to it and, sitting on a very little box in front of a very big box, finished up the final report for the Elphinstone central office of the chief accountant, who had gone home the day before, and that he showed his inescapable unromanticism by whistling over the forms and looking altogether more cheerful than when he had danced through the lobby with ledger leaves in his hair.
Whether as a result of this treatment, or from the inescapable realization that in ostracizing the Lanyons she distressed no one but Charlotte, she appeared next morning with so firm a smile, and so inexhaustible a flow of amiable commonplaces, that she might have been supposed to have suffered a complete loss of memory.
No matter which he attacked first, both of the others would be in a position to counterstrike from behind, take a surprise move, and trap his remaining monster in an inescapable vise.
It was Arhu's inescapable curiosity, notable even for a cat, which kept his wizardry fretting and fraying at the fabric of linear time until it "wore through" and some image from future or past leaked out.
McAllen was afraid of the Tube, and in the forefront of his reflections must be the inescapable fact that the secret of the McAllen Tube could no longer be kept without Barney Chards co-operation.
The symbols and their meanings were inescapable: the august emerita wasor had beena deadheart, a necromancer at the very least.