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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unavoidable \Un'a*void"a*ble\, adjective
1. Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.
2. (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. -- {Un'a*void"a*ble*ness}, noun -- {Un'a*void"a*bly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unavoidable
adjective: impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"; "an ineluctable destiny"; "an unavoidable accident" [syn: {ineluctable}, {inescapable}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "unavoidable": certain, definite, destined, determined, fated, fateful, fixed, indefeasible, ineluctable, ineludible, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, inflexible, irresistible, irrevocable, necessary, predestined, predetermined, relentless, resistless, settled, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, unalterable, unchangeable, uncontrollable, undeflectable, unevadable, unpreventable, unstoppable, unyielding
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