ineluctable

ineluctable (in-i-LUHK-tuh-buhl) - adj., not to be avoided, inescapable.


Both physical escape and abstract ones: an ineluctable conclusion. Though physical is the root sense. Adopted in 1623 from Latin inēluctābilis, from in-, not + ex-, out (of) + luctārī, to struggle + -ābilis, able -- not-struggle-out-able, originally with a wrestling use.


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