inescapable

adj

Etymology

From in- + escapable.

  1. derived from cappa
  2. derived from ex-
  3. derived from *excappāre — “to escape a garment, get out of one's clothing
  4. derived from escaper
  5. inherited from escapen
  6. suffixed as escapable — “escape + able
  7. prefixed as inescapable — “in + escapable

Definitions

  1. Impossible (unable) to avoid or escape

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

    • The Rugby flyover, too, is now an inescapable feature of the West Coast main line landscape.
    • Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at inescapable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at inescapable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at inescapable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA