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Webster 1913 Edition
Unavoidable
Unˊa-void′a-ble
,Adj.
1.
Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary;
as,
. unavoidable
troubles2.
(Law)
Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
Blackstone.
Unavoidable hemorrhage
(Med.)
, hemorrhage produced by the afterbirth, or placenta, being situated over the mouth of the womb so as to require detachment before the child can be born.
Unˊa-void′a-ble-ness
, Noun.
Unˊa-void′a-bly
, adv.
Webster 1828 Edition
Unavoidable
UNAVOID'ABLE
, a.1.
That cannot be made null or void.2.
Not avoidable; not to be shunned; inevitable; as unavoidable evils.3.
Not to be missed in ratiocination.Definition 2024
unavoidable
unavoidable
English
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?)
Usage notes
- See usage notes at inevitable.
Synonyms
- (impossible to avoid): inescapable, inevitable
Antonyms
- (impossible to avoid): avoidable
Translations
impossible to avoid
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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 […]
- 1825, The London magazine (volume 12, page 490)