Meanings
comparative more unavoidable · superlative most unavoidable
- lawNot voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
A confirmation is allied to a release, being a conveyance of an estate or right in esse whereby a voidable estate is made unavoidable
1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
plural unavoidables
- Something that cannot be avoided.
Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least[…]
1825, The London magazine, volume 12, page 490
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveImpossible to avoid; bound to happen.
antonym(s) of “impossible to avoid”
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveimpossible to avoid or evade
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishunavoidable
- Englishunavoidable
From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἀναπόδραστος
- ἀναπόδραστος (anapódrastos)impossible to avoid
Arabic وَاجِب
- وَاجِب (wājib)impossible to avoid
Bengali ওয়াজিব
- ওয়াজিব (ōẇajibo)impossible to avoid
Catalan inevitable
- inevitableimpossible to avoid
Chinese Mandarin 不可避免的, 免不了
- 不可避免的 (bùkě bìmiǎn de)impossible to avoid
- 免不了 (miǎnbuliǎo)impossible to avoid
Czech nevyhnutelný
- nevyhnutelnýimpossible to avoid
Danish uundgåelig
- uundgåeligimpossible to avoid
Dutch onvermijdelijk, onontkoombaar
- onvermijdelijkimpossible to avoid
- onontkoombaarimpossible to avoid
Estonian vältimatu
- vältimatuimpossible to avoid
Finnish väistämätön
- väistämätönimpossible to avoid
French inévitable
- inévitableimpossible to avoid
German unausweichlich, unvermeidlich
- unausweichlichimpossible to avoid
- unvermeidlichimpossible to avoid
- unvermeidbarimpossible to avoid
Greek αναπόφευκτος, άφευκτος
- αναπόφευκτος (anapófefktos)impossible to avoid
- άφευκτος (áfefktos)impossible to avoid
Hebrew בלתי־נמנע
- בלתי־נמנע (biltí-nimná)impossible to avoid
Hindi अपरिहार्य
- अपरिहार्य (aprihārya)impossible to avoid
Hungarian elkerülhetetlen
- elkerülhetetlenimpossible to avoid
Icelandic óumflýjanlegur
- óumflýjanlegurimpossible to avoid
Italian inevitabile
- inevitabileimpossible to avoid
Japanese 不可避な, やむを得ない
- 不可避な (fukahi na)impossible to avoid
- やむを得ない (yamu wo enai)impossible to avoid
Latin inevitabilis
- inevitabilisimpossible to avoid
Latvian nenovēršams, neizbēgams
- nenovēršamsimpossible to avoid
- neizbēgamsimpossible to avoid
Persian اجتنابناپذیر
- اجتنابناپذیر (ejtenâb-nâpazir)impossible to avoid
Polish nieunikniony
- nieuniknionyimpossible to avoid
Portuguese inevitável, incontornável
- inevitávelimpossible to avoid
- incontornávelimpossible to avoid
Romanian inevitabil, de neocolit
- inevitabilimpossible to avoid
- de neocolitimpossible to avoid
Russian неизбе́жный, немину́емый
- неизбе́жный (neizbéžnyj)impossible to avoid
- немину́емый (neminújemyj)impossible to avoid
- неотврати́мый (neotvratímyj)impossible to avoid
- непредотврати́мый (nepredotvratímyj)impossible to avoid
Scottish Gaelic do-sheachanta
- do-sheachantaimpossible to avoid
Slovak nevyhnutný
- nevyhnutnýimpossible to avoid
Spanish impajaritable
- impajaritableimpossible to avoid
Ukrainian немину́чий
- немину́чий (nemynúčyj)impossible to avoid
Welsh anochel, anocheladwy
- anochelimpossible to avoid
- anocheladwyimpossible to avoid
- anorfodimpossible to avoid
Cite this entry
unavoidable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unavoidable
“unavoidable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unavoidable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unavoidable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unavoidable.
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