Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Impossible to avoid; inevitable. See Synonyms at certain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Incapable of being made null or void.
- Not avoidable; not to be shunned; inevitable: as, unavoidable evils.
Wiktionary
- adj. Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary.
- adj. (Law) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. impossible to avoid or evade:
Etymologies
- From un- + avoid + -able. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Arguing for the majority, Justice Scalia said this wording-and the word unavoidable in particular-exempted vaccines that were of "defective design.”
“Scalia said the word "unavoidable" would be meaningless "if a manufacturer could be held liable for failure to use a different design.”
The Washington Post: Supreme Court rules vaccine makers protected from lawsuits
“Its foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, said talks were underway between EU member states and international partners on new sanctions, which he called "unavoidable".”
The Guardian: Russia rejects further sanctions of Iran over nuclear programme
“Rowan Williams, called for a renewed effort to reach out to alienated young people during what he described as the "unavoidable austerity ahead".”
“Anyhow, as much as I dearly love my oven-microwave, there are certain unavoidable setbacks.”
“Of course, there are certain unavoidable economic consequences of the action that the Rhodesian Government has taken: the loss of imperial preference, the loss of the Commonwealth sugar agreement and things of that kind-they will undoubtedly follow; punitive economic measures, which would be self-defeating and harm the very people whom they are designed to help, raise quite different considerations.”
The Commonwealth Today As Seen By A Former Colonial Secretary
“To suggest that they may be unavoidable is merely to risk being plastered with those labels that we are all terrified of.”
“I watch the political movements and measures which affect the present position of the Church and of the tenure of land, with as much curiosity and interest as are compatible with an unswerving conviction of certain unavoidable results.”
“Aaron ... went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering -- Whether it had been enjoined the first time, or was unavoidable from the divisions of the priestly labor not being as yet completely arranged, Aaron, assisted by his sons, appears to have slain the victims with his own hands, as well as gone through all the prescribed ritual at the altar.”
“Japan's health ministry made what it called an "unavoidable" change Wednesday, more than doubling the amount of radiation to which the workers can be legally exposed.”
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