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Ineluctable: meaning, example and synonyms

Ineluctableadj. Impossible to avoid or escape; inevitable.

Flashcard for Ineluctable (adjective): impossible to avoid or escape; inevitable. Example: To the report's authors, the decline of the coastal fishery seemed ineluctable, the result of warming waters no local policy could reverse. Synonyms: inevitable, inescapable, unavoidable, certain. Antonyms: avoidable, escapable, preventable, uncertain. Memory tip: Latin eluctari = "struggle out"; in- = no struggling out. Illustration: the incoming tide washing over a sandcastle on a beach while a child in a sweater and shorts watches from dry sand.

Example

To the report's authors, the decline of the coastal fishery seemed ineluctable, the result of warming waters no local policy could reverse.

Part of speech
adjective
Synonyms
inevitable, inescapable, unavoidable, certain
Antonyms
avoidable, escapable, preventable, uncertain
Memory tip
Latin eluctari = "struggle out"; in- = no struggling out.

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Question 1

To the ancient playwrights, fate was ______: however hard their heroes struggled, the prophecy was always fulfilled in the end.

Question 2

Some economists argued that the shift from farming to factory work was ______, a change that no tariff or subsidy could have prevented.

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