inevitably

Adverb

Meaning

Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

necessarily unavoidably always needs certainly inexorably predictably inescapably ineluctably of necessity consequently need necessary completely eventually

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Antonyms

avoidably however nevertheless conversely incidentally but

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inevitable inevitability

Examples

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? Gregory Bateson

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. Ivan Illich

If you are travelling towards the East, you will inevitably move away from the West. Japanese Proverb

When sweethearts want each other, the parents must inevitably accede. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

inevitable result inevitable selection inevitableness inex inexact inexact time