1 that you cannot avoid or prevent:
It was an inevitable consequence of the decision. * It was inevitable that there would be job losses. * A rise in the interest rates seems inevitable.
2 [onlybeforenoun] (often humorous) so frequent that you always expect it:
the English and their inevitable cups of tea
3 (the inevitable) noun [sing.] something that is certain to happen:
You have to accept the inevitable. * The inevitable happened-I forgot my passport.
inevitability noun [U,sing.]:
the inevitability of death * There was an inevitability about their defeat.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for inevitable is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is inevitable a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, inevitable is tagged as adjective.
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