inescapable

English

Alternative forms

• inescapeable (nonstandard spelling)

Etymology

in- +‎ escapable

Pronunciation

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Adjective

inescapable (comparative more inescapable, superlative most inescapable)

1. Impossible (unable) to avoid or escape; not escapable.

   Synonyms: inevitable, unescapable

   Antonyms: escapable, evitable

   • 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130:

     The Rugby flyover, too, is now an inescapable feature of the West Coast main line landscape.

Derived terms

• inescapably

Related terms

• escapability
• escapably
• inescapability
• unescapability
• unescapably

Translations

impossible (unable) to avoid or escape

• Dutch: onontkoombaar (nl), onvermijdelijk (nl)
• Finnish: vääjäämätön (fi)
• French: inévitable (fr), inéluctable (fr)
• German: unausweichlich (de), unentrinnbar (de), unumgänglich (de), unvermeidlich (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἄφυκτος (áphuktos)

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• Latin: inēluctābilis
• Manx: neuscapailagh
• Portuguese: inevitável (pt) m or f, incontornável m or f
• Russian: неизбе́жный (ru) (neizbéžnyj), неотвратимый (ru) (neotvratimyj), неизбывный (ru) (neizbyvnyj)
• Spanish: inevitable (es)

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Spanish

Adjective

inescapable m or f (masculine and feminine plural inescapables)

1. inescapable