inevitable
Cannot be avoided
Inevitable describes something that cannot be avoided or prevented—it will happen no matter what.
Death is inevitable; so is change.
The word often carries a sense of resigned acceptance: The collapse was inevitable.
As a noun, the inevitable refers to whatever outcome cannot be escaped: She finally accepted the inevitable.
Impossible to avoid
- certainFree from doubt
- assuredCertain or self-possessed
- guaranteedPromised with certainty
- unquestionableCannot be challenged
definite · absolute · inexorable · irrevocable · foregone · predetermined · predestined · fated
Predetermined course of events
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
foreordained · fortune · lot · necessity · karma · fatalism · cosmic · ordained
End or deduction
- deathCessation of life
- demiseCessation of existence
- mortalityState of eventual death
- finaleConcluding part of performance
denouement · culmination · termination · finality · endgame · outcome · resolution · reckoning
Rhythmic group walk
- passageSegment of text
- flowUnbroken forward movement
- tickParasitic eight-legged pest
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
hourglass · approaching · looming · imminent · impending · oncoming · advancing · nearing
Thorough change in form
- progressionSequential forward movement
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
- transitionChange from one state
- shiftMovement or work period
entropy · decay · aging · impermanence · flux · passage · cycle · erosion
inescapable
Impossible to avoid
- certainFree from doubt
- assuredCertain or self-possessed
- guaranteedPromised with certainty
unquestionable · definite · absolute · inexorable · irrevocable · foregone · predetermined · predestined · fated · surefire
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
predestination · foreordained · fortune · lot · necessity · karma · fatalism · cosmic · ordained · written
conclusion
End or deduction
finale · denouement · culmination · termination · finality · endgame · outcome · resolution · reckoning · expiry
march
Rhythmic group walk
countdown · hourglass · approaching · looming · imminent · impending · oncoming · advancing · nearing · coming
transformation
Thorough change in form
- progressionSequential forward movement
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
- transitionChange from one state
shift · entropy · decay · aging · impermanence · flux · passage · cycle · erosion · deterioration
- fatedestiny, fate, kismet, Moira, fated
- predestinationpredestination, foreordination, preordination, election, foreknowledge
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- predeterminedfate, destiny, kismet, preordained, prearranged
- Absolutesabsolute, absolutely, all, always, complete
- chancechance, luck, lottery, dice, randomness
inevitableuncertain
Not firmly known
unlikely · doubtful · improbable · questionable · dubious
inevitableavoidable
Capable of being prevented
preventable · escapable · evadable · evitable · preventible
inevitablecontingent
Conditional or representative group
alterable · changeable · fortuitous · accidental · incidental