Thesaurus:inevitable

Thesaurus

inevitable

English

Adjective

Sense: impossible to avoid or prevent

Synonyms

• avoidless (rare)
• certain    [⇒ thesaurus]
• fatal (rare, archaic)
• foregone
• impreventable
• ineluctable
• inescapable
• inevitable
• inexorable
• irresistible
• necessary
• predictable
• unavoidable
• unforestallable
• unescapable
• unpreventable

Antonyms

• avoidable    [⇒ thesaurus]
• impossible

Hyponyms

• natural
• necessary

Hypernyms

• possible    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• unanticipable
• unanticipatable
• unforeseeable
• unforetellable
• unpredictable

See also

• Thesaurus:inevitably
• Thesaurus:sure thing

Further reading

• “474. inevitable” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “inevitable” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.