INELUCTABLE Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

ineluctable

adjective

ˌi-ni-ˈlək-tə-bəl

as in inevitable

impossible to avoid or evade the ineluctable approach of winter had many worried about the cost of heating their homes

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Recent Examples of ineluctable That is unfortunate but ineluctable, given the balance on the battlefield and the unwillingness of both the Biden administration and the current one to pour in the military resources that would give Ukraine a chance of defeating Russia. —

Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2025 The meanings of these images—which speak variously of environmental collapse, policy failure, ineluctable helplessness—do not invite their use as objects of contemplation. —

Teju Cole, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025 The Reichstag fire burns in the distance, and precursors to Nazism are everywhere in evidence; the coming violence feels ineluctable. —

Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024 But the ineluctable truth is that capitalism is here to stay and has no competitor. —

Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019 See All Example Sentences for ineluctable

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But what’s undeniable to anyone with two eyes is that Ellison, like so many corporate leaders, has been kissing up to Trump for more than a year — first to get control of Paramount and then in an attempt to make his company’s acquisition of Warners look inevitable.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2026
Many Jeeps, too, made our list, which was inevitable, and so did cars that challenge the definition, including the Mitsubishi Delica, Subaru Forester, and Mercedes Unimog.

— Robert Ross, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2026