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The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.
David James Duncan

Meaning of "ineluctable" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INELUCTABLE

From Latin inēluctābilis, from in-1 + ēluctārī to escape, from luctārī to struggle.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INELUCTABLE

ineluctable  [ˌɪnɪˈlʌktəbəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INELUCTABLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ineluctable is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INELUCTABLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Lead Us Not into Temptation

Lead Us Not into Temptation is an album by David Byrne, released in 2003 for the movie Young Adam, a film directed by David MacKenzie.

Definition of ineluctable in the English dictionary

The definition of ineluctable in the dictionary is incapable of being avoided; inescapable.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INELUCTABLE


collectable
kəˈlɛktəbəl
conductible
kənˈdʌktəbəl
constructable
kənˈstrʌktəbəl
constructible
kənˈstrʌktəbəl
delectable
dɪˈlɛktəbəl
destructible
dɪˈstrʌktəbəl
indestructible
ˌɪndɪˈstrʌktəbəl
injectable
ɪnˈdʒektəbəl
instructible
ɪnˈstrʌktəbəl
intractable
ɪnˈtræktəbəl
nondeductible
ˌnɒndɪˈdʌktəbəl
perfectible
pəˈfɛktəbəl
predictable
prɪˈdɪktəbəl
reconstructible
ˌriːkənˈstrʌktəbəl
respectable
rɪˈspɛktəbəl
retractable
rɪˈtræktəbəl
selectable
sɪˈlɛktəbəl
tractable
ˈtræktəbəl
undetectable
ˌʌndɪˈtektəbəl
unpredictable
ˌʌnprɪˈdɪktəbəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INELUCTABLE

inelaborate
inelaborately
inelastic
inelastically
inelasticity
inelegance
inelegancy
inelegant
inelegantly
ineligibility
ineligible
ineligibleness
ineligibly
ineloquence
ineloquent
ineloquently
ineluctability
ineluctably
ineludible
ineludibly

WORDS THAT END LIKE INELUCTABLE

able
acceptable
accountable
adjustable
charitable
comfortable
inevitable
notable
on the table
palatable
portable
printable
profitable
stable
suitable
table
timetable
uncomfortable
unforgettable
unstable
vegetable

Synonyms and antonyms of ineluctable in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ineluctable» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INELUCTABLE

Find out the translation of ineluctable to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ineluctable from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ineluctable» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不可避免
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ineluctable
570 millions of speakers

English

ineluctable
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनिवार्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حتمي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неотвратимый
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inelutável
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপরিহার্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inéluctable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak dapat dilaksanakan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unausweichlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

避けられない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불가피한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ineluctable
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

không thể tránh được
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவிர்க்கமுடியாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बेजबाबदार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kaçınılmaz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ineluttabile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieuniknione
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

невідворотний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ineluctabil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αναπόφευκτη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onafwendbaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ineluctable
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ineluctable
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ineluctable

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INELUCTABLE»

The term «ineluctable» is regularly used and occupies the 66.881 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INELUCTABLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ineluctable

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QUOTES WITH «INELUCTABLE»

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David James Duncan
The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INELUCTABLE»

Discover the use of ineluctable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ineluctable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Surrender and Catch: Experience and Inquiry Today
In searching for the ineluctable (ineluctabilis, 'not-fightable-out-of,' 'not to be got out of), one may be led by wondering about the word 'the ineluctable' itself. And ask: Where is, what is, that which I cannot get out of? And answer: In myself; the ...
K.H. Wolff, 1976
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
... qualified: skillful, skilled, »proficient, expert, adept, masterly ineluctable » inevitable, inescapable, unescapable, unavoidable Ana »certain, inevitable, necessary Con escapable, avoidable, evadable or evasible, elud- ible (see corresponding ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
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Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: On the Art of James Joyce
No longer am I the center of the shell. Now let's take a detailed look at this real luster of a chapter. It begins with this paragraph: Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am ...
Joseph Campbell, Edmund L. Epstein, 2003
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A Whole, a Fragment
Accounting for what happens while, because I have to, I account to myself for what I am writing because it happens; there I achieve what I must, and out of the ineluctable of the writing becomes the processual of the meaning. Saying this I thus ...
Kurt H. Wolff, 2002
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The Sociology of Radical Commitment: Kurt H. Wolff's ...
In surrender, the suspension of received meanings continues until the ineluctable (Unumganglich) is reached.6 The ineluctable is that which one cannot get around, or cannot get out of, and it is from the ineluctable (the non-suspendable) that ...
Gary Backhaus, George Psathas, 2007
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Latin and Roman Culture in Joyce
The apparent root -luc- must somehow be connected with "light"; and "ineluctable " must mean something like "unable to be darkened." As pop epistemology that definition makes surface sense; as scientific etymology it is all wrong.8 The Latin  ...
R. J. Schork, 1997
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Self-reflexivity in Literature
In this chapter the "ineluctable modality of the visible" and "the ineluctable modality of the audible" as modalities of literature are both mentioned right at the beginning. Stephen walks along Sandymount Beach listening to the sound of his boots ...
Werner Huber, Martin Middeke, Hubert Zapf, 2005
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The Enigma of Good and Evil: The Moral Sentiment in ...
Wolff experiences the suspension of meanings and the ineluctable character of immediate experience. In vain he attempts to maintain the bare immediacy of experience while apprehending meaning and through the impossibility of this project ...
Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 2006
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The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality
It's a while now that I've been tarrying with what James Joyce, in Ulysses, called “ the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality.” That typically Joycean phrase could detain us for a while: why is visuality ineluctable? Who has made it so?
Nicholas Mirzoeff, 2011
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Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics
I am then like the (free) subject or the (aleatory) accident of the ineluctable. The latter does not constitute me. I am constituted without it. Second type: what announces itself as ineluctable seems in some way to have already happened, to have ...
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Christopher Fynsk, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INELUCTABLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ineluctable is used in the context of the following news items.
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On the “Demonic Nature of Social Evil in Our Time” - Patheos
Without these the world of ineluctable movement assumes its own laws, and, like a black widow spider of science-fiction proportions, it turns on ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
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Oliver Knussen honors his mentor and friend at Tanglewood - Music …
An ineluctable shadow will hang over this year's Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, one left by the death of composer Gunther ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
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The special Ramadan feast | The Economist
Set against the prospect of their comeback, though, is the ineluctable dimming of Iran's revolutionary ardour. In the last days of the nuclear talks ... «The Economist, Jul 15»
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Sherlock Reinvents Himself as 'Mr. Holmes' - AARP
And, when Holmes does "that thing" — arriving at an initially inconceivable yet ultimately ineluctable deduction — we share the boy's delight. «AARP News, Jul 15»
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Beacon Hill Notebook: Where's The Legislative Agenda?
... the MBTA reforms out of the way, House Speaker Robert DeLeo is focusing on less controversial items like the ineluctable sales tax holiday. «WGBH NEWS, Jul 15»
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Manhattan judge grants custody of dog to ex-girlfriend, ending …
"Under pinning all discussions is the basic ineluctable fact that a dog is still, for the most part, chattel, and must go with its legal owner absent ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
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Marrying Health and Human Rights: How LGBT … - Huffington Post
This work reflects a key foundation of public health that I have discussed previously: Context plays an ineluctable role in shaping the health of ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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The EU Stands For Austerity, And Labour Faces A Dilemma
... the EU's ineluctable centralization destroys local cultures and autonomy; and the vast Brussels administration of bureaucrats makes the EU ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
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Chippa coach Sikhakhane red-hot favourite to win this season's …
... balls over the past few weeks insist that coach Roger Sikhakhane is a dead man walking and has an ineluctable date with the Grim Reaper. «BDlive, Jul 15»
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Casey letter: Who's right: Watson or the pope?
On anthropogenic global warming, Pope Francis declares that “there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act.”. «Laramie Boomerang, Jul 15»

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