inevitably

B2 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˌɪˈnɛvətəbli/ UK /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/ See IPA manual

Freq #14168

Meanings

1

adv
In a way that cannot be avoided or prevented.

Inevitably, all living things eventually die.
2

adv
As expected; in the way that always seems to happen.

Inevitably, the neighbor started mowing his lawn just as she fell asleep.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adv · in a way that cannot be... unavoidably necessarily inexorably

2 adv · as expected; in the way... predictably always

More ineluctably inescapably relentlessly surely unrelentingly

Opposites

avoidablyevitablyimpossibly incidentally unexpectedly unusually

Word family

Related forms inevitability inevitable intrinsically

Etymology

From inevitable + -ly.

Topics

Describing Qualities

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