Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not to be overcome or escaped from.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inescapable; inevitable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Impossible to
avoid orescape ;inescapable ,irresistible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective impossible to avoid or evade:
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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ROME—Italy's business elite Friday demanded rapid and bold action by the government to avoid what they called an "ineluctable slide into economic and social decline."
Italian Business Lobby Calls for Action on Economy Giada Zampano 2011
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The unhavable experience, which cannot be had; the absolute ineluctable which is ineluctable: how can I talk about it?
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We could be misled if we considered the rise of the nones simply a symptom of ineluctable secularization.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguros acclaimed works of fiction.
Nocturnes: Summary and book reviews of Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro. 2009
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Some argue that there should be one and only one priority -- investing in research to discover a cure for Alzheimer's or at least to invent medications to stop the ineluctable decline the disease brings with it.
Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W.: Meet the Mental Health Needs of People With Dementia L.M.S.W. Michael Friedman 2012
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Anyone still doubting the ineluctable stupidity of firebaggers can read the comment @19.
Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher? 2010
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Taken as an ineluctable entirety, these units of self-measure are intense, unnerving, and productively bewildering.
Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011
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He insists on the ineluctable historical presence of morality in our lives, which leads him to his basic insight: that those who did evil believed that they were doing good.
They All Knew They Were Right Timothy Snyder 2011
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Taken as an ineluctable entirety, these units of self-measure are intense, unnerving, and productively bewildering.
Seth Abramson: December 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011
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The Chief Judge dissented, noting, "this court's unprecedented decision leads to the ineluctable result of union decertification in order to invoke rights to which players are clearly entitled under the antitrust laws."
David Morris: The Superbowl Is Over -- Now The Real Combat Begins David Morris 2011
john commented on the word ineluctable
Day after Christmas, 2006, 5:43pm EST: ineluctable is the 100,000th word posted on Wordie. A Joycean word:
"Ineluctable modality of the visible: At least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack , the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see." - Ulysses, "Proteus"
and later in the same chapter:
"I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back."
December 27, 2006
5814738 commented on the word ineluctable
"She stood on a tripod of stiff telescoping metal. her body had been altered for heavy labour, with pistons and pulleys giving her what looked like ineluctable strength." From Perdido Street Station by China Mieville.
September 22, 2011