Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an inevitable manner; so as to render escape or evasion impossible; unavoidably.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a manner that is impossible to avoid or prevent.
- adv. As usual; predictably; as expected.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. by necessity
- adv. in such a manner as could not be otherwise
Etymologies
- inevitable + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The term inevitably elicits a negative response and is often viewed as synonymous with “mob rule.””
“On a basic level, an image in a book or a painting can either be inert or charged, with other descriptions of this latter state ranging from “luminous” to the banal and simplistic “symbolic” because the term inevitably reduces image to one thing or another, and evokes the word “Freudian,” which imposes strict purpose on imagery in a way I find distasteful.”
“State was in favor of dropping that too: “The reforms do not yet add up to changes as far reaching as the Prague Spring of 1968, which the phrase inevitably conjures up.””
“In the meantime, every journalist with a license to speak on public airwaves has a professional responsibility to take Pat Boone to task for inviting his readers to hold in check what he describes as the inevitably violent, 'jihadist savagery' of the California Prop-8 protesters.”
Jeffrey Feldman: Boone Says Prop-8 Protest Same as Mumbai Terror
“Packages I’d sent to the label inevitably wound up in a box under someone’s desk.”
“This occasioned a painful dilemma, though prudent Christians made strenuous efforts to repudiate the apparent treason which their religious usage of this title inevitably suggested, and to make it clear that by “kingdom” and”
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries
“The clue, inevitably, is in the Banking Commission's terms of reference, which require it to have regard for bank lending and the pace of economic recovery, competitiveness in financial services and the wider economy, and risks to the overnment's fiscal position.”
The Wall Street Journal: This Looks Like a Rather Damp Squib
“These book sales will ensure that Palin inevitably becomes America's next and greatest President of all times.”
“It's just one more example of why anyone with a brain inevitably develops contempt for Congress.”
Temporary Dividend Tax Cut?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“So her name inevitably surfaced after Smith started mulling the idea of skewing young with the cast.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘inevitably’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Words English Learners Don't Use
though, inevitable, thorough, awkward, presumption, inevitably, overwhelming, startle, odd, weird, awful, witty
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Words For Novel
viridity, effigy, paragon, congested, acrid, lilting, clandestine, plethora, accolade, sardonic, naïve, reckoning and 285 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Learned words
Words which are highly likely to be found in the work of learned writers.
ailurophile, labyrinthine, lagniappe, colleague, anechoic, reglets, fluctuations, scalar, implicit, constitute, mortification, ambassadors and 629 more...
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Nigella Bites
words from the cookbook "Nigella Bites" by Nigella Lawson
intend, evangelical, present, nattering space, inevitably, consequently, techniques, liqueur, purist, frankly, constraints, jot and 256 more...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Words used in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
decadence, emancipation, nostalgia, abounded, modernity, revolution, famine, conservative, privy, vied, nascent, correspondence and 211 more...
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Watchmen (2009)
Words from 2009 'Watchmen' film.
adversary, certitude, deterrent, stockpile, posturing, minuteman, vigilante, toss, flip, spook, carcass, tread and 174 more...
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I'm number one
words that i listed first. some are sort of made-up and a few belong in the "all things hair" section.
poptart, ipso facto, carelessness, uncommunicative, inkblot, exactitude, inevitably, woozie, goatee, lowlight, highlight, moisturize and 9 more...
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