unavoidably

In inescapable fashion

Unavoidably means in a way that cannot be prevented or escaped.

Something unavoidably happens when no alternative exists: The flight was unavoidably delayed by weather.

The word often softens inconvenience by implying circumstances beyond anyone's control: I was unavoidably detained.

certainty

inescapably

Without possibility of avoidance

undeniably · assuredly · unquestionably · indubitably · definitively · conclusively · irrefutably · unmistakably · undoubtedly · incontrovertibly

compulsion

obligatorily

By force of requirement

perforce · ineluctably · bindingly · pressured · coerced · required · duty-bound · involuntarily · unwillingly · reluctantly

fate

destined

Fixed by fate

preordained · foreordained · predetermined · written · prophesied · decreed · sealed · karmic · providentially · fatefully

Opposites
necessity/inevitability

unavoidablyavoidably

In a preventable manner

optionally · unnecessarily · preventably · needlessly · voluntarily

choice/volition

unavoidablyvoluntarily

Without external compulsion

optionally · deliberately · intentionally · by choice · willingly

Phrases
Family

unavoidable, unavoidability

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