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16 words match “UNAVOIDABLE”

UNAVOIDABLE a. 2 definitions
Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.
AVERAGE n.
al loss happening to the ship, or cargo, or freight, in consequence of some fortuitous or unavoidable accident; and it is borne by the individual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers. -- Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the us…
AVOIDLESS a.
Unavoidable; inevitable.
DISQUIETTUDE n.
e or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
FORTUITOUS a.
Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes. Abbott.
INDISPENSABLE a.
Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] Fuller.
INEVITABLE a.
Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain. "The inevitable hour." Gray. It was inevitable; it was necessary; it was planted in the nature of things. Burke.
INEVITABLENESS n.
The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen. Prideaux.
LABOR n.
Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort directed to some useful end, as agriculture, manufactures, and like; servile toil; exertion; work. God hath set Labor and rest, as day and night, to men Successive. Milton.…
NECESSITY n. 2 definitions
The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
QUIETLY adv.
Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.
SHUNLESS a.
Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable. [R.] "Shunless destiny." Shak.
STOIC n.
uld be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.
UNAVOIDED a.
Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
UNDISPENSABLE a.
Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] Fuller.
UNDO v.
impoverish; to ruin, as in reputation, morals, hopes, or the like; as, many are undone by unavoidable losses, but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence. That quaffing and drinking will undo you, Shak.