unavoidably

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English unavoidable

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English unavoidably

From unavoidable + -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

unavoidably (comparative more unavoidably, superlative most unavoidably)

1. In an unavoidable manner.
   • 1958 January, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:

     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, […] .

Synonyms

• (in an unavoidable manner): inevitably, perforce

Translations

in an unavoidable manner

• Afrikaans: onvermydelik
• Albanian: pashmangshmërisht (sq)
• Catalan: inevitablement
• Czech: nevyhnutelně
• Danish: uomgængeligt
• Finnish: väistämättömästi (fi), vääjäämättömästi, välttämättömästi
• French: inévitablement (fr), inéluctablement (fr)
• Georgian: გარდაუვალად (gardauvalad)
• Greek: σίγουρα (el) (sígoura), αναπόδραστα (el) (anapódrasta), αναπόφευκτα (el) (anapófefkta), αναπότρεπτα (el) (anapótrepta)
• Hungarian: óhatatlanul (hu), elkerülhetetlenül (hu)
• Italian: inevitabilmente (it), impreteribilmente, inderogabilmente (it), imprescindibilmente (it), obbligatamente (it)
• Polish: nieuchronnie (pl)
• Portuguese: inevitavelmente
• Romanian: inevitabil (ro)
• Russian: немину́емо (ru) (neminújemo), неотврати́мо (ru) (neotvratímo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: не̏избје̄жно

  Latin: neizbježno (sh)

• Spanish: inevitablemente (es), ineludiblemente
• Ukrainian: немину́че (nemynúče)