Inevitable means certain to happen and impossible to avoid. The inevitable result, it was inevitable, an inevitable consequence.
The inevitable as a noun means whatever cannot be avoided: bow to the inevitable, put off the inevitable. Inevitably is very common as a sentence adverb — inevitably it rained. Note that describing something as inevitable after the event is one of the commonest forms of hindsight, and that historians spend a great deal of time arguing about which events actually were.
1adjectiveinevitableCertain to happen; impossible to avoid.
“With so little rain, a poor harvest was inevitable.”
synonyms: unavoidable, certain
inevitable is a quality of certainty.
Also accepted in games: unavoidable
Latin inevitabilis is in-, not, plus evitabilis, avoidable — from vitare, to shun. The word is a double negative in Latin's own terms: not able to be got out of the way of.
Latin
inēvītābilis — unavoidable
Middle French
inevitable
English, today
inevitable
Built from
From Middle French inevitable, from Latin inēvītābilis (“unavoidable”), from in- + ēvītābilis (“avoidable”), from evito (“to avoid”), from ē- (“out”) + vito (“to shun”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA