English
Etymology
From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable.
Adjective
unavoidable (comparative more unavoidable, superlative most unavoidable)
- Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
- an unavoidable urge
- (law) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)
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Translations
impossible to avoid
- Arabic: وَاجِب (ar) (wājib)
- Belarusian: непазбе́жны (njepazbjéžny), няміну́чы (njaminúčy)
- Bengali: অনিবার্য (bn) (ônibarjô)
- Catalan: inevitable (ca)
- Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不可避免的 (bùkě bìmiǎn de), 免不了 (zh) (miǎnbuliǎo)
- Czech: nevyhnutelný (cs) m
- Danish: uundgåelig
- Dutch: onvermijdelijk (nl), onontkoombaar (nl)
- Estonian: vältimatu (et)
- Faroese: óundansleppandi, óundankomandi
- Finnish: väistämätön (fi)
- French: inévitable (fr)
- Galician: inevitable (gl), inevitábel (gl)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: unausweichlich (de), unvermeidlich, unvermeidbar (de)
- Greek: αναπόφευκτος (el) (anapófefktos)
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
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- Hungarian: elkerülhetetlen (hu)
- Icelandic: óumflýjanlegur (is)
- Italian: inevitabile (it)
- Japanese: 不可避な (fukahi na), やむを得ない (yamu wo enai)
- Khmer: ដែលមិនអាចជៀសផុត (dael mɨn aac cieh pʰot)
- Latin: inevitabilis
- Latvian: nenovēršams m, nenovēršama f, neizbēgams m, neizbēgama f
- Persian: اجتنابناپذیر (ejtenâb-nâpazir)
- Polish: nieunikniony (pl) m
- Portuguese: inevitável (pt)
- Romanian: inevitabil (ro), de neocolit
- Russian: неизбе́жный (ru) (neizbéžnyj), немину́емый (ru) (neminújemyj), неотврати́мый (ru) (neotvratímyj), непредотврати́мый (ru) (nepredotvratímyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: do-sheachanta
- Slovak: nevyhnutný
- Spanish: inevitable (es)
- Ukrainian: немину́чий (nemynúčyj)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: anochel (cy), anocheladwy (cy), anorfod (cy)
- Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
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Noun
unavoidable (plural unavoidables)
- Something that cannot be avoided.
- 1825, The London magazine (volume 12, page 490)
- Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least […]
