Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Impossible to escape or avoid; inevitable: inescapable consequences. See Synonyms at certain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not to be eluded or escaped, or escaped from; inevitable.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not escapable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. impossible to avoid or evade:
Etymologies
- in- + escapable (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Over the years although he has never worked with a piano teacher, Granville has developed a style built on a combination of classical technique and what he describes as "inescapable present day modality shaped by a tumultuous emotionality.”
The Huffington Post: George Heymont: No, Seriously -- Send In The Clowns!
“Cube, Saw, Demons, The Exterminating Angel all feature hapless victims locked in inescapable situations - a guaranteed formula for suspense that we like to call "shooting fish in a barrel.”
“Both bows produced astounding speeds, but both also exhibited certain inescapable drawbacks compared with most other bows, namely:”
“There are certain inescapable realities that teach us humility, that force us to acknowledge we're not really masters of the universe.”
“The only real “danger” in pointing out the inescapable is that everyone will wake up and notice that this is the worst administration ever – everyone, perhaps, except for you.”
“Equally inescapable is that some of these same federal policies have hindered economic development in my province.”
British Columbia: The West Coast Speaks to Central and Eastern Canada
“But it is pertinent for me to remind you of certain inescapable and highly significant facts.”
“And because of certain inescapable psychological principles, this will, if persisted in, bring about the very situation which we most dread.”
“The identification of metaphor with truth "in the text of philosophy," inescapable, is what "Anthropomorphism and Trope in the”
“The bookstore is a world in which every day offers some opportunity to celebrate what Martin Luther King called the 'inescapable network of mutuality,' often with laughter, sometimes with tears, always with gratitude," said Catherine Bohne, who took over the business in 2001, not long before the events of 9/11 transformed the site into a true community resource center.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘inescapable’.
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Unite 2
unspeakable, unavoidable, snobbish, sluggish, sizeable, rocky, reputable, numerous, moody, misty, knowledgeable, justifiable and 18 more...
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The Most Beautiful Words in the Engli...
mellifluous, obscure, star-crossed, undulating, solstice, messiah, audacious, solace, twilight, wanderlust, lovelorn, byzantine and 219 more...
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Predictionary
EXPECTED vs. SURPRISE
aberration, exception, spontaneous, synchronicity, startle, waylay, prophecy, zemblanity, inadvertent, atavism, sui generis, anomaly and 127 more...
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my dictionary
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
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God Hypothesis
postulate, posit, agnosticism, atheism, theism, deism, pantheism, transcendent, personal, cosmogenesis, ascription, agency and 65 more...
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