INEVITABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inevitably mean? 

• INEVITABLY (adverb)
  The adverb INEVITABLY has 2 senses:

1. in such a manner as could not be otherwise

2. by necessity

  Familiarity information: INEVITABLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INEVITABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In such a manner as could not be otherwise

Synonyms:

inevitably; necessarily; needs; of necessity

Context example:

we must needs by objective

Pertainym:

inevitable (incapable of being avoided or prevented)

Sense 2

Meaning:

By necessity

Synonyms:

ineluctably; inescapably; inevitably; unavoidably

Context example:

the situation slid inescapably toward disaster

Pertainym:

inevitable (incapable of being avoided or prevented)

 Context examples 

And have you thought of the years of licentiousness he inevitably has lived?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Drugs and hormones inevitably regulate both pathways, but if one could shut down the pathway producing side effects, drugs would work better.

(Heart Disease Severity May Depend on Nitric Oxide Levels, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind that later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I felt it was what was to be expected, and what could not be helped: an ordinary beggar is frequently an object of suspicion; a well-dressed beggar inevitably so.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Reducing sodium intake, which leads to lower blood pressure, will inevitably result in important reductions in cardiovascular events, low salt advocates contend.

(Study Shows Average Consumption of Salt Good for Heart Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The serious critic, with the sense of humour and the power of expression, must inevitably command the world’s ear.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A study by the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how these behaviors often inevitably evolve in species that form pair-bonds.

(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)

In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on a Friday night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You will find her manners beyond anything I can describe; and your wit and vivacity, I think, must be acceptable to her, especially when tempered with the silence and respect which her rank will inevitably excite.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The ruin of the play was to them a certainty: they felt the total destruction of the scheme to be inevitably at hand; while Mr. Yates considered it only as a temporary interruption, a disaster for the evening, and could even suggest the possibility of the rehearsal being renewed after tea, when the bustle of receiving Sir Thomas were over, and he might be at leisure to be amused by it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)