Entry Word: inevitable

Function: adjective

Meaning: impossible to avoid or evade <getting wet is inevitable if you are going to try to give your dog a bath>

Synonyms certain, inescapable, necessary, sure, unavoidable

Related Words decided, definite, settled; likely, possible, probable; destined, fated, foreordained, predestined, predetermined, preordained; inexorable, relentless, unremitting

Phrases in the bag

Near Antonyms preventable (also preventible); doubtful, dubious, questionable, shaky, unclear; undecided, unsettled; undependable, unreliable; improbable, unlikely

Antonyms avoidable, escapable, uncertain, unsure