Definizione monolingua

ineluctable

ineluctable (comparative more ineluctable, superlative most ineluctable)

1. Impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable, irresistible.
   • 1655, Thomas Pierce, A Correct Copy of Some Notes concerning Gods Decrees, ""A Paraenesis to the Reader,"" chapter 4, item 50:

     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.

   • 1797, Alexander Shiels, A Hind Let Loose, Calton (Glasgow), page 541:

     They have come under the yoke of ineluctable slavery.

   • 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, The Ebb-Tide, chapter 10:

     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.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 3—Proteus:

     I throw this ended shadow from me, manshape ineluctable, call it back.

   • 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:

     Out in the street, under the reddening afternoon sun, a spectacle of ineluctable commerce greeted her.

   • 1996, Friedrich Nietzsche, Trans. R. J. Hollingdale, Human, All Too Human, ""The Religious Life,"" Aphorism 141:

     It is easy to see how designating the ineluctably natural as bad, and then invariably finding it so, makes men themselves worse than they need be.

   • 2007, Marina Hyde, ""The artists formerly known as huge carbon footprints,"" Guardian Unlimited (UK), 7 July:

     The first will be the ineluctable fact of climate change.

   • 2008, Peter Reid, ""Narbonne - an historic note,"" Redbubble, 9 April 2008:

     The subsequent ruination of Narbonne’s trade was to be an ineluctable process.

Definizione dizionario ineluctable

	ineluttabile
	impossible to avoid or escape

	inevitabile
	Che non può essere evitato.
	That cannot be avoided.

Altri significati:

Impossible to avoid or escape; inescapable, irresistible.