inevitable

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 16.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Impossible to avoid or prevent.

   We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.

2. adjective Predictable or always happening.

   My outburst met with the inevitable punishment.

3. noun Something that is predictable, necessary, or cannot be avoided.

Similar words

unavoidable ineluctable inescapable necessary fateful fatal predictable inevitably unavoidably undeniable

Often followed by

that and result in consequence as consequences outcome conclusion

Word family

inevitabilities inevitability inevitableness inevitablenesses inevitably