"unavoidable" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unavoidable.wav Forms: more unavoidable [comparative], most unavoidable [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|unavoidable}} Middle English unavoidable, {{prefix|en|un|avoidable}} un- + avoidable Head templates: {{en-adj}} unavoidable (comparative more unavoidable, superlative most unavoidable)
  1. Impossible to avoid; bound to happen. Synonyms (impossible to avoid): inescapable, inevitable Translations (impossible to avoid): ἀναπόδραστος (anapódrastos) (Ancient Greek), وَاجِب (wājib) (Arabic), непазбе́жны (njepazbjéžny) (Belarusian), няміну́чы (njaminúčy) (Belarusian), ওয়াজিব (ōẇajibo) (Bengali), inevitable (Catalan), 不可避免的 (bùkě bìmiǎn de) (Chinese Mandarin), 免不了 (miǎnbuliǎo) (Chinese Mandarin), nevyhnutelný (Czech), uundgåelig (Danish), onvermijdelijk (Dutch), onontkoombaar (Dutch), vältimatu (Estonian), óundansleppandi (Faroese), óundankomandi (Faroese), väistämätön (Finnish), inévitable (French), inevitable (Galician), inevitábel (Galician), unausweichlich (German), unvermeidlich (German), unvermeidbar (German), αναπόφευκτος (anapófefktos) (Greek), בלתי־נמנע (biltí-nimná) [masculine] (Hebrew), elkerülhetetlen (Hungarian), óumflýjanlegur (Icelandic), inevitabile (Italian), 不可避な (fukahi na) (Japanese), やむを得ない (yamu wo enai) (Japanese), ដែលមិនអាចជៀសផុត (dael mɨn aac cieh pʰot) (Khmer), inevitabilis (Latin), nenovēršams (Latvian), neizbēgams (Latvian), unforbugendlic (Old English), اجتنابناپذیر (ejtenâb-nâpazir) (Persian), nieunikniony [masculine] (Polish), inevitável (Portuguese), incontornável (Portuguese), inevitabil (Romanian), de neocolit (Romanian), неизбе́жный (neizbéžnyj) (Russian), немину́емый (neminújemyj) (Russian), неотврати́мый (neotvratímyj) (Russian), непредотврати́мый (nepredotvratímyj) (Russian), do-sheachanta (Scottish Gaelic), nevyhnutný (Slovak), inevitable (Spanish), немину́чий (nemynúčyj) (Ukrainian), anochel (Welsh), anocheladwy (Welsh), anorfod (Welsh)
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  2. (law) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void. Categories (topical): Law
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Noun

IPA: /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-unavoidable.wav Forms: unavoidables [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|unavoidable}} Middle English unavoidable, {{prefix|en|un|avoidable}} un- + avoidable Head templates: {{en-noun}} unavoidable (plural unavoidables)
  1. Something that cannot be avoided.
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Inflected forms

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          "Impossible",
          "impossible"
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        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "inescapable"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "ar",
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          "roman": "wājib",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "وَاجِب"
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          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "njepazbjéžny",
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          "word": "непазбе́жны"
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          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "няміну́чы"
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          "lang": "Bengali",
          "roman": "ōẇajibo",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "ওয়াজিব"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "bùkě bìmiǎn de",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "不可避免的"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "miǎnbuliǎo",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "免不了"
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          "lang": "Czech",
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          "word": "nevyhnutelný"
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          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "uundgåelig"
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          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "onvermijdelijk"
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          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "onontkoombaar"
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          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "vältimatu"
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          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "word": "väistämätön"
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          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
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          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "unausweichlich"
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          "word": "unvermeidlich"
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          "roman": "anapófefktos",
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          "word": "αναπόφευκτος"
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          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "ἀναπόδραστος"
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          "code": "he",
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          "roman": "biltí-nimná",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
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          "word": "בלתי־נמנע"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "elkerülhetetlen"
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          "code": "is",
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          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "óumflýjanlegur"
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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
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          "code": "ja",
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          "roman": "fukahi na",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "不可避な"
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          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "yamu wo enai",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "やむを得ない"
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          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "dael mɨn aac cieh pʰot",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "ដែលមិនអាចជៀសផុត"
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          "code": "la",
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          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "inevitabilis"
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          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "nenovēršams"
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          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "neizbēgams"
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          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "unforbugendlic"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "ejtenâb-nâpazir",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "اجتنابناپذیر"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
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          "word": "nieunikniony"
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "inevitável"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "incontornável"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "inevitabil"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "de neocolit"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "neizbéžnyj",
          "sense": "impossible to avoid",
          "word": "неизбе́жный"
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        "2": "un",
        "3": "avoidable"
      },
      "expansion": "un- + avoidable",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "unavoidables",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "unavoidable (plural unavoidables)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1825, The London magazine, volume 12, page 490:",
          "text": "Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that cannot be avoided."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "word": "unavoidable"
}

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