Unavoidably

adv

adv ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an unavoidable manner.

    "The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […]."

Adverb
  1. 1
    by necessity wordnet

Synonyms

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necessarilyby definitioncertainlyineluctablyineluctablyinescapably

Example

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"Tom has been unavoidably detained in Boston."

Etymology

From unavoidable + -ly.

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