Impossible to avoid or prevent.
We were going so fast that the collision was inevitable.
Something that is predictable, necessary, or cannot be avoided.
I pass also the jealousies, the quarrels, the disgusts, that make the catholic questions and corn-bills of married life—and only dwell on one particular: some irresistible hat, some adorable cap, some exquisite robe, has rather elongated your milliner's list of inevitables...
The fifty-sixth sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
From Middle French inevitable, from Latin inēvītābilis (“unavoidable”), from in- + ēvītābilis (“avoidable”), from ēvītāre (“to avoid”), from ē- (“out”) + vītāre (“to shun”).
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