inevitably
/ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/ adverb
- adverb In a manner that is impossible to avoid or prevent. “Inevitably, all creatures eventually die.”
- adverb As usual; predictably; as expected. “Inevitably, the next-door neighbour began to mow his lawn just as she lays down her head after a long night shift.”
Synonyms
certainly inexorably unavoidably necessarily in rerum natura always predictably regularly ineluctably inescapably relentlessly sure as a gun sure as fate surely unrelentingly of necessity needs
Antonyms
evitably avoidably impossibly incidentally unexpectedly unusually
Etymology
From inevitable + -ly.
Webster’s 1913
- adverb Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly.
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “inevitably”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details