unavoidable

The word “unavoidable” has 5 syllables: un-a-void-a-ble

It's pronounced as /ˌʌnəˈvɔɪdəbəl/


What is synonym and antonym for unavoidable?

In the thesaurus, “unavoidable” has 34 synonyms and 20 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for unavoidable along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for unavoidable

  • certain
  • compulsory
  • decided
  • definite
  • destined
  • fated
  • foreordained
  • impending
  • in the bag
  • in the cards
  • ineluctable
  • ineludible
  • inescapable
  • inevasible
  • inevitable
  • inexorable
  • likely
  • locked up
  • necessary
  • obligatory
  • on the cards
  • open and shut
  • possible
  • predestined
  • predetermined
  • preordained
  • probable
  • relentless
  • set
  • settled
  • sure
  • unescapable
  • unremitting
  • unstoppable

Antonyms for unavoidable

  • avoidable
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • escapable
  • evadable
  • improbable
  • optional
  • preventable
  • preventible
  • questionable
  • shaky
  • uncertain
  • unclear
  • undecided
  • undependable
  • unlikely
  • unreliable
  • unsettled
  • unsure
  • voluntary

Meanings of unavoidable

  • noun
    1. Something that cannot be avoided.
  • adjective
    1. Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
    2. Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.

Example Sentences

  • Unavoidable traffic delays caused her to be late for the meeting despite leaving early.
  • The company had to make some unavoidable cuts to its budget due to the economic downturn.
  • As much as they tried to prevent it, conflict between the two groups seemed unavoidable.
  • The doctor explained that surgery was unavoidable to correct the problem with her knee.
  • In certain situations, conflict is unavoidable, but how we handle it is within our control.

On this page you'll find 54 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to unavoidable, such as: avoidable, certain, compulsory, decided, definite, destined, doubtful.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

called for

  • a must
  • appropriate
  • ask for
  • asked
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  • badgered
  • begged
  • bespoke
  • bore
  • burning
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  • capital
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  • chartered
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  • clamant
  • clamorous
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  • comme il faut
  • commissioned
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  • condign
  • conforming to accepted standards
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  • fitting
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  • harassed
  • heavy
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  • hurry-up
  • immediate
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  • imperative
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  • important
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  • inquire
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  • leading
  • licenced
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  • life and death
  • mandated
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  • need
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  • of the essence
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  • right
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  • took
  • top-priority
  • touch and go
  • touchy
  • unavoidable
  • urged
  • vital
  • want
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  • warranted
  • weighty

gathering

  • accreting
  • accretion
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  • accumulating
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  • affair
  • affiliating
  • agglomerate
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  • caucus
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  • clambake
  • clamming
  • clinic
  • clubbing
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  • clustering
  • clutter
  • collaborating
  • collating
  • collecting
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  • coming
  • company
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  • concentering
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  • concluding
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  • confederating
  • conference
  • congeries
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  • congregating
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  • conjecturing
  • conjoining
  • connecting
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  • consort
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  • cooperating
  • corralling
  • coterie
  • council
  • coupling
  • cropping
  • crowd
  • crush
  • cumulation
  • cumulus
  • cutting
  • deciding
  • deducing
  • demonstration
  • deriving
  • dialog
  • dialogue
  • discourse
  • discussion
  • drawing a conclusion
  • drifting
  • drove
  • educing
  • elevating
  • eliciting
  • enhancing
  • enlarging
  • enriching
  • evoking
  • exciting
  • expanding
  • expected
  • extending
  • extrapolating
  • federating
  • finding out
  • fishing
  • flock
  • flocking
  • foraging
  • foregathering
  • foreseen
  • forgathering
  • forthcoming
  • forum
  • function
  • fund
  • future
  • gain
  • gaining
  • gallery
  • gang
  • ganging up
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  • get-together
  • getting together
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  • gleaning
  • grandstand
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  • growing
  • guessing
  • harvesting
  • hash
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  • heap
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  • herding
  • hiving
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  • hodgepodge
  • horde
  • hotchpotch
  • house
  • huddle
  • huddling
  • hunting
  • imminent
  • impending
  • inevitable
  • inferring
  • ingathering
  • interpreting
  • interview
  • inventory
  • joining
  • judging
  • jumble
  • junction
  • kitty
  • knot
  • legion
  • levy
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  • linking
  • litter
  • lodgement
  • lodgment
  • looming
  • lowering
  • lumping
  • making out
  • market
  • mass
  • massing
  • maximizing
  • medley
  • meet
  • meeting
  • menacing
  • merging
  • mishmash
  • mix
  • mixture
  • mob
  • motley
  • mounting
  • mowing
  • multitude
  • muster
  • mustering
  • near
  • nearing
  • negotiation
  • nest egg
  • netting
  • ominous
  • oncoming
  • organizing
  • pack
  • packing
  • palaver
  • panel
  • parley
  • party
  • pending
  • philosophizing
  • picking
  • picking up
  • pile
  • pileup
  • piling
  • pooling
  • portentous
  • possible
  • potpourri
  • predicted
  • press
  • pressing
  • probable
  • rabble
  • rabblement
  • raising
  • rally
  • rallying
  • rationalizing
  • re-collecting
  • reading
  • reaping
  • reasoning
  • reassembling
  • reconvening
  • regathering
  • regrouping
  • remeeting
  • rendezvousing
  • reserve
  • ridging
  • round-robin
  • rounding up
  • roundtable
  • roundup
  • sealing
  • seminar
  • session
  • shrimping
  • snaring
  • social function
  • society
  • speculating
  • stacking
  • stepping up
  • stimulating
  • stock
  • stockpile
  • store
  • sum
  • summit
  • summoning
  • supply
  • supposing
  • surmising
  • swarm
  • swarming
  • symposium
  • synod
  • systematizing
  • talk
  • thinking
  • threatening
  • throng
  • thronging
  • totality
  • trapping
  • turnout
  • unavoidable
  • understanding
  • union
  • uniting
  • upcoming
  • whaling
  • workshop

imminent

  • about to happen
  • anticipated
  • apocalyptic
  • apocalyptical
  • approaching
  • around the corner
  • at hand
  • awaited
  • brewing
  • close
  • coming
  • expectant
  • expected
  • fast-approaching
  • following
  • foreseen
  • forthcoming
  • future
  • gathering
  • immediate
  • impending
  • in store
  • in the air
  • in the cards
  • in the offing
  • in the wind
  • in view
  • ineluctable
  • inescapable
  • inevasible
  • inevitable
  • likely
  • looming
  • lowering
  • menacing
  • near
  • nearing
  • next
  • nigh
  • ominous
  • on hand
  • on its way
  • on tap
  • on the horizon
  • on the verge
  • oncoming
  • overhanging
  • pending
  • portentous
  • possible
  • predicted
  • probable
  • proximate
  • see it coming
  • threatening
  • to come
  • unavoidable
  • unescapable
  • upcoming

necessary

  • advantage
  • all-important
  • assured
  • basic
  • binding
  • bottom-line
  • cardinal
  • central
  • certain
  • chief
  • coercive
  • compelling
  • compulsory
  • condition
  • consequential
  • critical
  • crucial
  • de rigueur
  • decided
  • decisive
  • definite
  • demand
  • demanded
  • desideration
  • desideratum
  • destined
  • edge
  • elementary
  • enforced
  • essential
  • exigent
  • expedient
  • fated
  • forced
  • foreordained
  • fundamental
  • imminent
  • imperative
  • important
  • in the bag
  • in the cards
  • incumbent
  • incumbent on
  • indispensable
  • ineluctable
  • ineludible
  • inerrant
  • inescapable
  • inevasible
  • inevitable
  • inexorable
  • infallible
  • insistent
  • integral
  • involuntary
  • key
  • likely
  • major
  • mandatory
  • material
  • meaningful
  • momentous
  • must
  • must-have
  • name of game
  • necessitous
  • necessity
  • need
  • needed
  • needful
  • nonelective
  • obligatory
  • of the essence
  • on the cards
  • organic
  • paramount
  • peremptory
  • persistent
  • plus
  • possible
  • precondition
  • predestined
  • predetermined
  • preordained
  • prerequisite
  • pressing
  • prime
  • principal
  • probable
  • quintessential
  • relentless
  • required
  • requirement
  • requisite
  • returnless
  • settled
  • significant
  • sine qua non
  • specified
  • substantial
  • sure
  • unavoidable
  • undeniable
  • unescapable
  • unremitting
  • unstoppable
  • urgent
  • vital
  • wanted
  • weighty
  • wish

obligatory

  • all-important
  • arid
  • banal
  • barren
  • binding
  • boring
  • bromidic
  • canned
  • cardboard
  • cliche
  • cobwebby
  • coercive
  • colorless
  • commonplace
  • compulsatory
  • compulsory
  • conventional
  • cookie-cutter
  • de rigueur
  • demanded
  • derivative
  • drab
  • dreary
  • drudging
  • dry
  • dull
  • dusty
  • enforced
  • essential
  • flat
  • forced
  • hack
  • hackney
  • hackneyed
  • heavy
  • ho-hum
  • humdrum
  • imitative
  • imperative
  • imperious
  • incumbent
  • indispensable
  • insistent
  • involuntary
  • jading
  • jejune
  • leaden
  • mandatory
  • mind-numbing
  • monotonous
  • moth-eaten
  • musty
  • necessary
  • needed
  • nonelective
  • normal
  • numbing
  • old
  • old hat
  • old-fashioned
  • ordinary
  • pedantic
  • pedestrian
  • peremptory
  • persistent
  • platitudinal
  • platitudinous
  • ponderous
  • pressing
  • prosaic
  • ready-made
  • required
  • requisite
  • rote
  • routine
  • shopworn
  • stale
  • standard
  • stereotyped
  • stock
  • stodgy
  • stuffy
  • tame
  • tedious
  • threadbare
  • timeworn
  • tired
  • tiresome
  • tiring
  • tried-and-true
  • trite
  • twice-told
  • typical
  • unavoidable
  • undramatic
  • unimaginative
  • uninspired
  • uninteresting
  • unoriginal
  • urgent
  • usual
  • vapid
  • wearisome
  • weary
  • wearying
  • well-worn

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