Synonyms of unavoidable

unavoidable

adjective

ˌən-ə-ˈvȯi-də-bəl 

as in inevitable

impossible to avoid or evade

unfortunately, kitchen duty will be unavoidable tonight

Synonyms & Similar Words

• inevitable
• necessary
• possible
• inescapable
• definite
• ineluctable
• unescapable
• probable
• sure
• destined
• certain
• in the cards
• likely
• in the bag
• ineludible
• relentless
• decided
• settled
• inexorable
• fated
• unstoppable
• predetermined
• preordained
• unremitting
• predestined
• foreordained

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of unavoidable

The problem is the transition costs, which are unavoidable and cannot be decoupled from efforts to avoid the future warming that awaits us. — Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026

Healthcare workers, transportation workers and others in safety-sensitive occupations can experience unavoidable sleep loss, and there may not always be time or an appropriate place for a 90-minute nap. — Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

The quantumness involved is simple, fleeting, and kind of unavoidable — even in a flask of dead chemicals, some tiny particles will tunnel through energetic barriers. — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2026

For his part, Johnson has cast undetailed settlement costs as an unavoidable key driver of the city’s looming $882 million budget gap. — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026