Meaning of INELUCTABLE
Pronunciation: | | `ini'luktubul
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| Definition: | | [adj] impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion"; "an ineluctable destiny"; "an unavoidable accident" |
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| Synonyms: | | inescapable, inevitable, unavoidable |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \In`e*luc"ta*ble\, a. [L. ineluctabilis; pref. in-
not + eluctabilis to be surmounted, fr. eluctari to struggle
out of, to surmount: cf. F. in['e]luctable. See {Eluctate}.]
Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable.
--Bp. Pearson.
The ineluctable conditions of matter. --Hamerton.
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| Related Terms: | | absolute, apodictic, bound, certain, clear, clear and distinct, clear as day, conclusive, decisive, definite, determinate, fated, fateful, indefeasible, ineludible, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, inexorable, inflexible, irresistible, irrevocable, necessary, perfectly sure, positive, predestined, predetermined, relentless, resistless, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, sure-enough, true, unambiguous, unavoidable, uncontrollable, undeflectable, unequivocal, unevadable, univocal, unmistakable, unpreventable, unstoppable, unyielding |
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