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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unavoidable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The accident was really unavoidable.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Fogarty avoided fistfights, but when they were unavoidable he packed his nose with the cotton he always carried.
▪ If it is unavoidable then type out the script in double spacing with bold headings.
▪ Playback to the whole class may be unavoidable because of time and space restrictions.
▪ So he says dealing with issues of race is unavoidable.
▪ There was some unavoidable noise, but not much.
▪ Under these controls, what emissions are then unavoidable have to be rendered harmless.
▪ Yet age does carry an unavoidable handicap.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unavoidable

Unavoidable \Un`a*void"a*ble\, a.

  1. Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.

  2. (Law) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
    --Blackstone.

    Unavoidable hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage produced by the afterbirth, or placenta, being situated over the mouth of the womb so as to require detachment before the child can be born. [1913 Webster] -- Un`a*void"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`a*void"a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unavoidable

mid-15c., from un- (1) "not" + avoidable. Related: Unavoidably.

Wiktionary
unavoidable

a. 1 impossible to avoid; bound to happen. 2 (context legal English) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void. n. Something that cannot be avoided.

WordNet
unavoidable

adj. impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"; "an ineluctable destiny"; "an unavoidable accident" [syn: ineluctable, inescapable]

Wikipedia
Unavoidable

Unavoidable 躲不過 (Pinyin: Duǒ Bú Guò / Simplified Chinese: 躲不过) is the second album by winner of Malaysian Idol 2, Daniel Lee Chee Hun, released on 13 June 2007, approximately 18 months since his self-titled debut album.

Unavoidable (disambiguation)

Unavoidable is an album by Daniel Lee Chee Hun.

It may also refer to:

  • Unavoidable Girl, a Vietnamese television series
  • Unavoidable pattern, a formal pattern which occurs in all sufficiently long strings of symbols

Usage examples of "unavoidable".

The Catholic religion had been compulsory in South Ireland from 1944 until 1980, and the Erse language, although that was largely corrupted by unavoidable English words and locutions, had also been made obligatory.

Upon the whole, the metempsychosis may be understood, as to its inmost meaning and its final issue, to be either a Development, a Revolution, or a Retribution, a Divine system of development eternally leading creatures in a graduated ascension from the base towards the apex of the creation, a perpetual cycle in the order of nature fixedly recurring by the necessities of a physical fate unalterable, unavoidable, eternal, a scheme of punishment and reward exactly fitted to the exigencies of every case, presided over by a moral Nemesis, and issuing at last in the emancipation of every purified soul into infinite bliss, when, by the upward gravitation of spirit, they shall all have been strained through the successively finer growing filters of the worlds, from the coarse grained foundation of matter to the lower shore of the Divine essence.

She kissed him again, an emphatic unavoidable press, her hand moving across and down to palpate roughly through government-issue twill the anarchist in his pants.

He wills to move a palsied limb: the soul is unaffected by the paralysis, but the muscles refuse to obey his volition: the distinction between the person willing and the instrument to be wielded is unavoidable.

The former of these is unavoidable by those who have any eyes, and the latter is perhaps no less certain and necessary a consequence of our having any brains.

I left unavoidable electronic traces that will eventually be uncovered, leading the Sandia team here.

On the assumption that many general readers are as unmathematical as I am, I will use them sparingly, though they are occasionally unavoidable, not least in a chapter dealing with things on a cosmic scale.

What did he have in common with this Cain come to judgment, this bemedaled swaggering boor who rejoiced in having reduced all the subtleties of conscious thought to rigidly simple, unavoidable alternatives: kill or be killed!

Indra, from the meanest worm to the supreme Buddha, constitute one fraternal race, by the unavoidable effects of the law of retribution constantly interchanging their residences in a succession of rising and sinking existences, ranging through all the earths, heavens, and hells of the universe, bound by the terrible links of merit and demerit in the phantasmagoric dungeon of births and deaths.

A charge of more than 3 or 5 grams of the ore cannot be worked in one, and with such small charges the unavoidable variations have a serious effect on the figures reported.

Buffon criticized the Linnaean method for relying upon characters so tenuous that it rendered the use of the microscope unavoidable.

The inference is unavoidable that the confluence of Persian thought and feeling with Hebrew thought and feeling, joined with the materials and flowing in the channels of the subsequent experience of the Jews, formed a mingled deposit about the age of Christ, which deposit was Pharisaism.

With rich ores such variation is unavoidable under any conditions, and the only safe plan is to take the mean of several assays.

The widespread granular lesions of the skin, the suppurative lymph nodes, the all-too-obviously painful perianal abscesses made diagnosis almost unavoidable.

Nevertheless he sins if he defer being baptized beyond the time appointed by the Church, except this be for an unavoidable cause and with the permission of the authorities of the Church.