inevitable
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
inevitable/ɪnˈevɪtəbl/
▶adjective certain to happen; unavoidable.
■ informal totally predictable: the inevitable letter from the bank.
▶noun (the inevitable) a situation that is unavoidable.– derivatives
inevitability noun,
inevitably adverb.
inevitability noun,
inevitably adverb.
– origin ME: from L. inevitabilis, from in- ‘not’ + evitabilis ‘avoidable’.
'inevitable' also found in these Oxford entries:
automatic
- by-product
- cert
- entail
- fatalism
- fate
- manifest destiny
- memento mori
- natural
- nature
- necessary
- resignation
- unavoidable
- will
