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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inevitable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an inevitable consequence (=that you cannot avoid)
▪ Loss of mobility is not an inevitable consequence of old age.
bowed to the inevitable (=accepted something he could not change)
▪ Myers finally bowed to the inevitable and withdrew from the campaign.
certain/inevitable doom (=sure to happen)
▪ Some environmentalists have concluded that the planet faces certain doom.
the inescapable/inevitable conclusion (=one that is very obvious, although you may not like it)
▪ The inescapable conclusion was that the country needed a change of leadership.
the inevitable result (=a result that is impossible to avoid)
▪ Weight loss is an inevitable result of the disease.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ It was almost inevitable that this would have a negative effect on any innovative work.
▪ The almost inevitable result: Housing prices will drop, hurting homeowners.
▪ Felt was an almost inevitable consequence of keeping woolly sheep.
▪ They identify the mechanisms that make suburban sprawl possible, almost inevitable.
▪ If the current mood sustains, the killing of a paedophile by the public seems almost inevitable.
▪ Judgemade economic policy seems an almost inevitable consequence of a balanced-budget amendment in our litigious society.
▪ In all the circumstances some rot of some kind was almost inevitable in a good proportion of gliders.
as
▪ They regard the conflicts between the centre and the locality as inevitable.
▪ Conflict is viewed as inevitable and a normal part of the way things get done.
▪ They also teach us to regard such disappointment as inevitable.
▪ Health care was seldom a major political issue, and inequalities in its provision were considered as inevitable as inequalities in wealth.
▪ Hence, class conflict is viewed as inevitable and indeed as the only major source of conflict in capitalist society.
▪ Yet the return of the mayflies is no longer as inevitable as the return of May.
▪ Were things as inevitable as they seem?
perhaps
▪ All this is perhaps inevitable in a subject which is expanding at the rate of around 1000 research publications a year.
▪ This, of course, would make the development of complexity probable, perhaps inevitable.
▪ Is it not perhaps inevitable for all creatures with imagination, all creatures which can say no?
▪ It was a tragedy, though perhaps inevitable, that these two great peoples met in conflict.
▪ It is perhaps inevitable that professionals view advocates with a touch of apprehension and mistrust.
▪ In undertaking such a vast development programme as the Mahaweli Project, it is perhaps inevitable that unanticipated problems arise.
▪ This was perhaps inevitable, given the nature of the medium.
▪ As we have seen, even though the Government Actuary's Department's guidelines are helpful, a rough-and-ready approach is perhaps inevitable.
probably
▪ In retrospect, this split was probably inevitable.
▪ Too bad, judging from the old films, but probably inevitable.
▪ While full commercialization is probably inevitable, how the Internet will evolve is unclear.
▪ As Henriques etal. acknowledge, such problems are probably inevitable.
▪ Some drop out is probably inevitable.
▪ But she argues that, because this marking is universal, it is probably inevitable.
▪ In view of its relatively small budget and the size of the region, this is probably inevitable.
▪ From that moment on, a split between de Gaulle and the parties was probably inevitable.
■ NOUN
consequence
▪ Felt was an almost inevitable consequence of keeping woolly sheep.
▪ Such loyalty is by no means automatic or the inevitable consequence of propinquity.
▪ Our sole companion had been drinking heavily, with inevitable consequences.
▪ This knowledge brings solace, because the organization is familiar with the inevitable consequences and believes it can effectively deal with them.
▪ There were exaggerated expectations for one thing, a more or less inevitable consequence of those golden years.
▪ Judgemade economic policy seems an almost inevitable consequence of a balanced-budget amendment in our litigious society.
▪ Such a proliferation of bureaucracy is an inevitable consequence of the expansion of the activities of the state.
▪ Finally, restricting has the inevitable consequence of spreading unhealthy fear throughout an organization.
decline
▪ Old age was a phase of irrevocable and inevitable decline.
▪ Oil and gas production in the Permian is on a seemingly inevitable decline.
▪ There is then no selection, and an inevitable decline in viability and fertility.
▪ Namely, the inevitable decline of pagan myth.
outcome
▪ Such barrenness is the inevitable outcome where two people are growing apart and out of love.
▪ Although I favour examination rigour, further restriction on available content will be an inevitable outcome.
▪ It was a sad but inevitable outcome of not maintaining a proper balance between productivity and personality.
▪ An eleventh-century manuscript's depiction of war between Christians and Moors, and its inevitable outcome - baptism or execution.
▪ Concern for comfort, health and certainty are inevitable outcomes of this physiological decline.
▪ Given their workload, cuddling or talking to children is a luxury, and emotional deprivation an inevitable outcome.
▪ Adverse side-effects are the inevitable outcome of such an onslaught.
part
▪ But to suggest it's an inevitable part of our continuing generation costs is simply wrong.
▪ Alzheimer's is often seen as an inevitable part of ageing.
▪ Yet a large public sector appeared to be an almost inevitable part of the modern economy.
▪ Parsons's argument suggests that stratification is an inevitable part of all human societies.
▪ Is this accumulation of plasmids an inevitable part of evolution's scheme to kill us off when our breeding days are over?
▪ However, gaining weight is not an inevitable part of getting older.
▪ However the body has several physical internal mechanisms for combating the adverse external conditions which are an inevitable part of living.
question
▪ The way her mind had been working at the time, it had been an almost inevitable question.
▪ The inevitable question that all this raises is why?
result
▪ Therefore a draw becomes the inevitable result.
▪ The inevitable result is that innocent people die at the hands of the state.
▪ Magona has a surer touch when narrating the sweep of history that builds up to create inevitable results.
▪ I interpret as the inevitable result of conflict between art and female obligation in upper-class, old-family Boston.
▪ These are the inevitable results of leaving the merit of a book to be determined exclusively by market value.
▪ With grain prices kept at an artificially high price thereafter, the further impoverishment of those already poor was the inevitable result.
▪ Violence becomes, as a result, an appealing and even an inevitable result.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ If the population continues to expand, Ehrlich argues, mass starvation and ecological disaster will be the inevitable consequence.
▪ It was inevitable that he'd find out her secret sooner or later.
▪ Nina could never escape the inevitable comparisons that people made between her and her twin.
▪ Payton handled the inevitable questions about his past with great dignity.
▪ Since the leaders can't agree, more fighting is inevitable.
▪ The price of bread was doubled, with the inevitable result - riots in the streets of Paris.
▪ War now seems inevitable.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inevitable

Inevitable \In*ev"i*ta*ble\, a. [L. inevitabilis: cf. F. in['e]vitable. See In- not, and Evitable.]

  1. Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain. ``The inevitable hour.''
    --Gray.

    It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things.
    --Burke.

  2. Irresistible. ``Inevitable charms.''
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inevitable

mid-15c., from Latin inevitabilis "unavoidable," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + evitabilis "avoidable," from evitare "to avoid," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + vitare "shun," originally "go out of the way."

Wiktionary
inevitable

a. 1 impossible to avoid or prevent. 2 predictable, or always happening. n. Something that is predictable, necessary, or cannot be avoided.

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WordNet
inevitable

  1. adj. incapable of being avoided or prevented; "the inevitable result" [ant: evitable]

  2. invariably occurring or appearing; "the inevitable changes of the seasons"

inevitable

n. an unavoidable event; "don't argue with the inevitable"

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Wikipedia
Inevitable (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, inevitables are extraplanar magical constructs.

Inevitable (song)

"Inevitable" is a Latin rock song written and performed by Colombian-born singer Shakira, released as the third single from her 1998 multi-platinum album Dónde Están los Ladrones?.

Inevitable

Inevitable may refer to:

  • The Inevitable (album), a 1995 album by Squirrel Nut Zippers
  • De Inevitable, a 2004 album by Koopsta Knicca
  • Inevitable (album), a 2013 album by Samo
  • Inevitable (EP), an EP by Trey Songz
  • "Inevitable" (song), a 1999 single by Shakira from her 1998 album ¿Dónde Están los Ladrones?
  • "Inevitable", a song by Mushroomhead on their 1999 album M3
  • "Inevitable", a song by Anberlin on their 2007 album Cities
  • "Inevitable", a song by Dulce María on her album Extranjera
  • Inevitable (book), a 1900 novel by Dutch author Louis Couperus
  • The Inevitable, a 2016 nonfiction book about technology trends by US author Kevin Kelly
  • Inevitable (Dungeons & Dragons), a magical construct in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game
  • Al-Waqi'a, "Inevitable", 56th Surah (Chapter) of the Quran
Inevitable (book)

The Inevitable, The Law Inevitable or Inevitable, (, literally Along lines of graduality) is a novel by Dutch author Louis Couperus, published in 1900. It was first translated into English by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos and published in New York in 1920 by Dodd Mead and Company, and in London ('The Law Inevitable', 1921) by Thornton Butterworth. Both editions were reprinted once, in the year 1921. In 2005 a new edition was published by Pushkin Press, New York, titled 'Inevitable', without the definite article.

It chronicles the story of a 23-year-old Dutch divorcee, Cornélie de Retz van Loo, from an upper-class The Hague background who seeks to start a new emancipated and culturally fulfilling life in Italy.

In Britain the novel's erotic explicitness and the social issues it deals with provoked significant criticism upon its publication.

Inevitable (EP)

Inevitable is the debut extended play by Grammy-nominated R&B singer Trey Songz. It was released on November 28, 2011, his 27th birthday. It features five songs that were originally supposed to appear on his studio album, Chapter V, but didn't make the final cut. It has two promotional singles, "Top of the World" and "What I Be On" which features rapper and longtime collaborator Fabolous. The only official single from Inevitable was "Sex Ain't Better Than Love".

Inevitable (album)

Inevitable ( Eng.: Inevitably) is the title of a debut album released by Mexican pop music singer Samo, released on July 16, 2013 through Sony Music in México and July 30, 2013 in United States.

Usage examples of "inevitable".

The great distance separating America from Europe, the inevitable long delay in any communication with Congress, or worse, the complete lack of communication for months at a stretch, would plague both Franklin and Adams their whole time in Europe, and put them at a decided disadvantage in dealing with European ministers, who maintained far closer, more efficient contact.

Jefferson was the inevitable and ideal choice to replace Washington, Adams professed to be tired of politics.

I remembered the inevitable expressions of surprise with which, young Alpinists and ballooners, expecting the rim of the visible circle to fall away, see it rising around them in saucer-shape.

The beggar looked up at Apollonius as if he knew that what would follow was inevitable.

CD singles from the other bands available for sale in the foyer with the inevitable round of programmes, tee-shirts and other bits and pieces.

Now Barnett realized that there was no longer any way to prevent or delay the inevitable: James Meredith was coming into the university with the might of the federal government backing him up.

The immunity of the gods, who fight their mock battles while men stand and die, casts into higher relief the tragic situation of the men who risk and suffer not only pain and mutilation but the prospect, inevitable if the war goes on long enough, of death, of the total extinction of the individual personality.

Beaten at every turn, the followers of Bharata Rahon were forced to accept the inevitable, while those who had hated him were secretly delighted now that they were assured that both the Princess and the King had vouched for this strange warrior.

There was always the inevitable curiosity about how this very white man came to have a biracial niece.

Debussy nor Scriabine, no Strawinsky nor Bloch, put in appearance, one might possibly have found oneself compelled to believe the mournful decadence of Richard Strauss the inevitable development awaiting musical genius in the modern world.

Perhaps it was the way he worked, this Boxhead, so sure, so preplanned seeming, so inevitable.

Buckingham raised his standard at Brecknock, it was inevitable that Richard should get news of the intended attack.

They had retreated for three generations, about thirty thousand human years, raising their broods on cold nestworlds around red dwarfs, conserving, holding back for the inevitable conflicts.

Luke said, hating to let her father know that she had not escaped in a bullboat, after all, though defeat now seemed inevitable.

In this view, then, the rise of Ross Perot is the inevitable Caesarist quest for a capable outside figure who can straighten out the corrupt system.