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UNAVOIDABLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unavoidably mean?
• UNAVOIDABLY (adverb)
The adverb UNAVOIDABLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNAVOIDABLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
By necessity
Synonyms:
ineluctably; inescapably; inevitably; unavoidably
Context example:
the situation slid inescapably toward disaster
Pertainym:
unavoidable (impossible to avoid or evade)
Context examples
To the possibility of motives unanswerable in themselves, though unavoidably secret for a while?
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
For the truth of everything here related, I can appeal more particularly to the testimony of Colonel Fitzwilliam, who, from our near relationship and constant intimacy, and, still more, as one of the executors of my father's will, has been unavoidably acquainted with every particular of these transactions.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
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