ineluctable
pronunciation
How to pronounce ineluctable in British English:
UK [ˌɪnɪˈlʌktəbl]
How to pronounce ineluctable in American English:
US [ˌɪnɪˈlʌktəbəl]
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- Adjective:
- impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"
Word Origin
- ineluctable (adj.)
- "not to be escaped by struggling," 1620s, from Latin ineluctabilis "unavoidable, inevitable," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + eluctari "to struggle out of," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + luctari "to struggle" (see reluctance).
Example
- 1. The spread of democracy was not merely the unfolding of certain ineluctable processes of economic and political development .
- 2. Youth brings more than a base of workers and taxpayers ; it brings the ineluctable energy that propels everything .
- 3. It remains a matter of ineluctable fact that the introduction of the iphone just over a year ago changed the smartphone market for ever .
- 4. Over the past half century , it often seemed that the advance of democracy and basic freedoms-the right to speak and write without fear of persecution , to demand political change , and so on-was ineluctable .
- 5. First , whether or not citizens of the us ( or other high-income countries ) welcome it , the global spread of economic development is ineluctable .