ineluctable
Bound to happen
Ineluctable means impossible to avoid or escape.
The word carries a sense of fate or inevitability—something ineluctable will happen no matter what you do: the ineluctable march of time, an ineluctable conclusion.
It's a literary word, more common in philosophical or poetic contexts than everyday speech.
Impossible to avoid
- inexorableImpossible to prevent
- certainFree from doubt
- unpreventableImpossible to stop ahead
- unstoppableImpossible to halt
predetermined · fated · destined · assured · immutable · irrevocable · unalterable · fixed
Predetermined course of events
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
foreordination · lot · fortune · fatalism · determinism · karma · necessity · predetermination
Oppressively absurd and labyrinthine
- tragicCausing great sorrow
- inexorableImpossible to prevent
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- nemesisPersistent source of ruin
hubris · hamartia · catastrophe · denouement · fatalistic · gothic · foreboding · ominous
Indispensable requirement
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
- causalityCause-effect connection
- logosBrand identification symbols
- teleologyStudy of purpose in nature
fatalism · stoicism · metaphysics · ontology · existential · dialectical
inescapable
Impossible to avoid
- inexorableImpossible to prevent
- certainFree from doubt
- unpreventableImpossible to stop ahead
unstoppable · predetermined · fated · destined · assured · immutable · irrevocable · unalterable · fixed · irreversible
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
predestination · foreordination · lot · fortune · fatalism · determinism · karma · necessity · predetermination
Kafkaesque
Oppressively absurd and labyrinthine
- tragicCausing great sorrow
- inexorableImpossible to prevent
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
nemesis · hubris · hamartia · catastrophe · denouement · fatalistic · gothic · foreboding · ominous · portentous
necessity
Indispensable requirement
- determinismDoctrine of causal necessity
- causalityCause-effect connection
- logosBrand identification symbols
teleology · fatalism · stoicism · metaphysics · ontology · existential · dialectical
ineluctableavoidable
Capable of being prevented
preventable · evitable · avertable · avertible · evadable
ineluctableuncertain
Not firmly known
doubtful · questionable · unlikely · dubious · improbable