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inevitable
adjective as in certain; cannot be avoided
Strongest matches
imminent, impending, inescapable, inexorable, irresistible, necessary, unavoidable, undeniable
Weak matches
all locked up, assured, compulsory, decided, decreed, destined, determined, fated, fateful, fixed, for certain, foreordained, in the bag, ineluctable, ineludible, inflexible, irrevocable, no ifs ands or buts, obligatory, ordained, prescribed, settled, sure, unalterable, unpreventable, without recourse
Example Sentences
Moving between floors, the characters’ journey seems both improbable and inevitable.
I guess the commingling of two reality show crazes — houses and wedding dresses — was inevitable.
As this age cohort is vaccinated, it is inevitable that some deaths will happen around the same time as vaccinations.
The good death means accepting death as inevitable, and not fighting it when the time comes.
He thinks something would be lost if physical GameStop stores disappear, but he acknowledged that it’s probably inevitable.
The cameraman was reporting on the factory catching fire when the inevitable happened.
Sentences making such outcomes inevitable were once rare, but many inmates are serving them now.
Its arrival, experts say, is not just inevitable but imminent.
Instead, Sanders sold it for a sweet $87,000, which triggered an inevitable lawsuit (PDF).
Panic—and the inevitable panicking about the panic—is counterproductive.
In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.
The voice of duty called her to the kitchen, where her cook patiently awaited her inevitable, and always painful, audience.
The attitude of his youth returned; the pain was necessary, yet would bring inevitable joy as its result.
If it be a necessary, inevitable arrangement, I would not interfere with it for the world.
Was it the threat of Tony's near arrival that made her confession—and his dismissal—at last inevitable?
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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