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Definition of ineluctable in English: ineluctableadjective ˌɪnɪˈlʌktəb(ə)lˌɪnəˈləktəb(ə)l Unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable. 不可抗拒的;不可避免的;无法逃脱的 the ineluctable facts of history 不可避免的历史事实。 Example sentencesExamples - If this is so, then every event in nature is bound in chains of ineluctable necessity.
- The end acquires this ineluctable and dangerous feeling logic that did surprise me.
- For Dedalus, as for James Joyce, Irish history was an ineluctable, disabling miasma of piety, nationalism and superstition.
- In fact, if one accepts the argument above, the ineluctable conclusion is that Section 4 might actually facilitate the mandatory death sentence.
- What happened to the influential intellectuals and the trustworthy journalists explaining the ineluctable consequences of your present policies?
- The ineluctable result is ever-lengthening wait lists.
- Familiar to all doctors, ‘a natural history’ suggests a disease process moving to its ineluctable end.
- The fact of the matter is basic and ineluctable: we need these lists.
- But despite the ineluctable force of modernization it's surprising how strongly and deeply rooted this callous disregard for women is.
- It was not the only engine, of course, and certainly did not set out deliberately to achieve the growing inequalities, but that was the ineluctable result.
- Think back over the past six months and it becomes ineluctable: never in the history of modern warfare has so much been found so opportunely.
- Are human events triggered by the ineluctable mechanisms of systems - whether geopolitical or genetic - that are beyond our agency?
- He radiates an ineluctable lightness of being.
- Welfare improvement due to comparative advantage is a mechanistic outcome; no ineluctable policy prescription can be drawn solely on its basis.
- They don't dare to get to grips with the ineluctable dreariness of what is going on.
- It is a slow but ineluctable process of erasure.
- Of course, white-collar boxers have to get used the ineluctable fact that even the best fighters take their share of punches.
- That was an ineluctable fact with which, on the day, the reasonable hypothetical purchaser was faced.
- Both were fighting the ineluctable tide of history.
Synonyms inescapable, inevitable, bound to happen, sure to happen, unpreventable, inexorable, assured, certain, for sure, sure, fated, predestined, predetermined, preordained, necessary, compulsory, required, obligatory, mandatory, prescribed, out of one's hands
Derivativesnounˌɪnɪlʌktəˈbɪlɪti What was his motive in pressing upon us the ineluctability of the pain and frustration of human existence? Example sentencesExamples - That which is empty and that which overflows resemble one another, a desert mirage and the ineluctability of the event.
- Dante's moral universe has a beauty and a quality of ineluctability - the torments are all in some sense self-chosen, and truthful as well as just.
- Such a move represses consideration of the cultural repercussions of the structural ineluctability of white hegemony in Western societies.
- I thus argue against making broad assumptions about the ineluctability of homogenization.
adverb Marauding sharks scent blood and surely and ineluctably move in for their evening meal. Example sentencesExamples - And it's here, in my view, that we can start to analyse why this growth among the world's wealthiest is leading us, ineluctably, towards a global social upheaval.
- Most people think that globalisation inevitably and ineluctably leads to a growth in inequality but it isn't true.
- I leave it to you, dear reader, to draw the ninth, unstated lesson that seems to follow ineluctably from these eight relatively inarguable propositions.
- Yet heroin is still perceived as the paradigmatic voodoo drug, ineluctably turning its users into zombies who must obey its commands.
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin ineluctabilis, from in- 'not' + eluctari 'struggle out'. Definition of ineluctable in US English: ineluctableadjectiveˌɪnəˈləktəb(ə)lˌinəˈləktəb(ə)l Unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable. 不可抗拒的;不可避免的;无法逃脱的 the ineluctable facts of history 不可避免的历史事实。 Example sentencesExamples - But despite the ineluctable force of modernization it's surprising how strongly and deeply rooted this callous disregard for women is.
- If this is so, then every event in nature is bound in chains of ineluctable necessity.
- The ineluctable result is ever-lengthening wait lists.
- Are human events triggered by the ineluctable mechanisms of systems - whether geopolitical or genetic - that are beyond our agency?
- In fact, if one accepts the argument above, the ineluctable conclusion is that Section 4 might actually facilitate the mandatory death sentence.
- Of course, white-collar boxers have to get used the ineluctable fact that even the best fighters take their share of punches.
- He radiates an ineluctable lightness of being.
- Both were fighting the ineluctable tide of history.
- The end acquires this ineluctable and dangerous feeling logic that did surprise me.
- It is a slow but ineluctable process of erasure.
- Think back over the past six months and it becomes ineluctable: never in the history of modern warfare has so much been found so opportunely.
- That was an ineluctable fact with which, on the day, the reasonable hypothetical purchaser was faced.
- For Dedalus, as for James Joyce, Irish history was an ineluctable, disabling miasma of piety, nationalism and superstition.
- The fact of the matter is basic and ineluctable: we need these lists.
- It was not the only engine, of course, and certainly did not set out deliberately to achieve the growing inequalities, but that was the ineluctable result.
- Welfare improvement due to comparative advantage is a mechanistic outcome; no ineluctable policy prescription can be drawn solely on its basis.
- They don't dare to get to grips with the ineluctable dreariness of what is going on.
- Familiar to all doctors, ‘a natural history’ suggests a disease process moving to its ineluctable end.
- What happened to the influential intellectuals and the trustworthy journalists explaining the ineluctable consequences of your present policies?
Synonyms inescapable, inevitable, bound to happen, sure to happen, unpreventable, inexorable, assured, certain, for sure, sure, fated, predestined, predetermined, preordained, necessary, compulsory, required, obligatory, mandatory, prescribed, out of one's hands
OriginEarly 17th century: from Latin ineluctabilis, from in- ‘not’ + eluctari ‘struggle out’. |