unavoidable

Etymology

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

adj

  1. Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
    an unavoidable urge
  2. (law) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.

noun

  1. 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[…] 1825, The London magazine, volume 12, page 490

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