INEXORABILITY Synonyms: 15 Similar and Opposite Words

inexorability

noun

Definition of inexorability

as in likelihood

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Recent Examples of inexorability The events set in motion at the end of Season 2 do flip the boulder that starts to roll down the hill, and there is the sense of inexorability. — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 June 2026 These poems are plainspoken, emotionally direct, haunted by the past and the inexorability of time. — Vince Passaro, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025 But then there is that deadness that enters into the closing chapters, which might as easily be called inexorability. — Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025 Rather than conjuring a mood of bracing inexorability, this linear focus only suffocates what might be an interesting debate, as a man of the modern world weighs his values against those of a woman raised in atavistic isolation. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Suspensions and expulsions are associated with negative outcomes, including lower educational achievement, decreased likelihood of graduating high school and depression.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
With both of these important data points in hand, the market is pricing in a 78% likelihood that the central bank will hold in October, compared with a 36% chance a week ago, according to the CME FedWatch Tool.

— Alexa LoMonaco,Jeff Nash, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of likelihood

Noun

It’s centered on Bryant’s pillars of passion, obsession, relentlessness, resilience and fearlessness, core traits that Bowman used to persevere and conquer.

— Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 27 Sep. 2026
He’s taken over team prayers, inspired his teammates with his relentlessness and dispensed wisdom that can only come from life experience.

— Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of relentlessness

Noun

Years later, the group reflected on their chart dominance and the inevitability that another artist would eventually surpass them.

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
Jay has always skillfully folded each turn into his larger mythology, going from drug dealer to rapper to label boss to executive with an air of inevitability, every choice subsumed into the glory of the hustle.

— Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of inevitability

Noun

By July 5, Axios was reporting on Polymarket’s 66 percent withdrawal probability and the fact that Kamala Harris had overtaken Biden in its nomination market.

— Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, Gedion Timothewos, whose probability has remained below 3% for months, has almost $56 million traded on his odds.

— Davis Giangiulio,Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026

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