ineluctable
/ɪn.ɪˈlʌk.tə.bəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable, irresistible.
Example Sentences
- "God indeed (if it please him) can by his absolute power over his Creature, make him act this thing, or take that thing, by ineluctable Necessity, and whether he will or no."
- "They have come under the yoke of ineluctable slavery."
- "He was aware instantly of an opposition in his members, unanimous and invincible, clinging to life with a single and fixed resolve, finger by finger, sinew by sinew; something that was at once he and not he—at once within and without him;—the shutting of some miniature valve in his brain, which a single manly thought should suffice to open—and the grasp of an external fate ineluctable as gravity."
- "I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back."
- "For the self-regulating market was now believed to follow from the inexorable laws of Nature, and the unshackling of the market to be an ineluctable necessity."
- "Captain Kirk! And the ineluctible Mr. Spock. Welcome to Motherlode, gentlemen. Interested in purchasing a little love?"
Etymology
From Middle French inéluctable (whence in- + e- and -able), from Latin inēlūctābilis, from in- + ēlūctor (“struggle out”) + -bilis.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪn.ɪˈlʌk.tə.bəl/
- British English: /ɪn.ɪˈlʌk.tə.bəl/
Inflected Forms
more ineluctable (comparative)
most ineluctable (superlative)