inevitable
pronunciation
How to pronounce inevitable in British English:
UK [ɪnˈevɪtəbl]
How to pronounce inevitable in American English:
US [ɪnˈevɪtəbl]
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- Noun:
- an unavoidable event
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- Adjective:
- incapable of being avoided or prevented
- invariably occurring or appearing
Word Origin
- inevitable
- inevitable: [15] Latin ēvītāre meant ‘avoid’. It was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘away, from’ and vītāre ‘shun’, and actually produced an English verb evite ‘avoid’, a scholarly 16th-century introduction which survived as an archaism into the 19th century. Its derived adjective was ēvītābilis ‘avoidable’, which with the negative prefix became inēvītābilis.
- inevitable (adj.)
- mid-15c., from Latin inevitabilis "unavoidable," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + evitabilis "avoidable," from evitare "to avoid," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + vitare "shun," originally "go out of the way."
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Example
- 1. Downward pressure on fees seems inevitable .
- 2. Some analysts feel this is almost inevitable .
- 3. That is inevitable on both sides of the relationship .
- 4. Debt-ridden countries will seek to delay the inevitable ; their rescuers frequently will , too .
- 5. Division of europe was inevitable .