Unavoidable

Origin

From - + avoid + -.

Full definition of unavoidable

Adjective

1. Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
2. (legal) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.

Usage notes

See usage notes at inevitable.

Synonyms

• (impossible to avoid) inescapable, inevitable

Antonyms

• (impossible to avoid) avoidable

Noun

1. Something that cannot be avoided.
• 1825, The London magazine (volume 12, page 490)Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least...