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unavoidable

adj
/ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/

Etymology

From Middle English unavoidable, equivalent to un- + avoidable.

  1. inherited from unavoidable

Definitions

  1. Impossible to avoid

    Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.

    • an unavoidable urge

  2. Not voidable

    Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.

    • A confirmation is allied to a release, being a conveyance of an estate or right in esse whereby a voidable estate is made unavoidable

  3. Something that cannot be avoided.

    • Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least[…]

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  • antonymavoidableantonym(s) of “impossible to avoid”

Vish — recursive loop

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

8 hops · closes at unavoidable

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