UNAVOIDABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unavoidable mean? 

• UNAVOIDABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNAVOIDABLE has 1 sense:

1. impossible to avoid or evade

  Familiarity information: UNAVOIDABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNAVOIDABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impossible to avoid or evade

Synonyms:

ineluctable; inescapable; unavoidable

Context example:

an unavoidable accident

Similar:

inevitable (incapable of being avoided or prevented)

 Context examples 

"Yes," he replied gravely, "once I have. One meeting was unavoidable."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If any unavoidable change has come, in the sequence of time, upon our married life, you are not to blame.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

With all things in astrology, so much depends on the direction a relationship has taken until now, for an eclipse will magnify feelings to make them clear and unavoidable.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Many startling successes and a few unavoidable failures were the outcome of this long period of continuous work.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We are planning to implement this finding into a viable way to get rid of plastic waste, working towards a solution to save our oceans, rivers, and all the environment from the unavoidable consequences of plastic accumulation, Bertocchini says.

(Plastic Eating Worm Could Help Ease Pollution, VOA)

I must freely confess, that since my last return, some corruptions of my Yahoo nature have revived in me by conversing with a few of your species, and particularly those of my own family, by an unavoidable necessity; else I should never have attempted so absurd a project as that of reforming the Yahoo race in this kingdom: But I have now done with all such visionary schemes for ever.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Emma sat with her as long as she could, to attend her in Mrs. Goddard's unavoidable absences, and raise her spirits by representing how much Mr. Elton's would be depressed when he knew her state; and left her at last tolerably comfortable, in the sweet dependence of his having a most comfortless visit, and of their all missing her very much.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But to me the remembrance of the threat returned; nor can you wonder that, omnipotent as the fiend had yet been in his deeds of blood, I should almost regard him as invincible, and that when he had pronounced the words I shall be with you on your wedding-night, I should regard the threatened fate as unavoidable.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Colonel Brandon again repeated his sorrow at being the cause of disappointing the party; but at the same time declared it to be unavoidable.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)