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The definition of ineluctable is something that will definitely happen.

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An example of an ineluctable act is the sun rising every day.

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adjective

not to be avoided or escaped; certain; inevitable: ineluctable fate

Origin: L ineluctabilis < in-, not + eluctabilis, that can be resisted by struggling < eluctari, to struggle < ex-, out + luctari, to struggle < IE base *leug-, to bend > lock, Gr lygos, supple twig

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ineluctability noun
ineluctably adverb

See ineluctable in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable: “Those war plans rested on a belief in the ineluctable superiority of the offense over the defense” (Jack Beatty).

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Origin: Latin inēluctābilis

Origin: : in-, not; see in-¹

Origin: + ēluctābilis, penetrable (from ēluctārī, to struggle out of : ex-, ex- + luctārī, to struggle)

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