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 for unavoidable
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
  Unavoidable \Un`a*void"a*ble\, a.
     1. Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented;
        inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Law) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
        --Blackstone.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Unavoidable hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage produced by the
        afterbirth, or placenta, being situated over the mouth of
        the womb so as to require detachment before the child can
        be born.
        [1913 Webster] -- Un`a*void"a*ble*ness, n. --
        Un`a*void"a*bly, adv.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
  unavoidable
      adj 1: impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion";
             "an ineluctable destiny"; "an unavoidable accident" [syn:
             ineluctable, inescapable, unavoidable]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "unavoidable":
     certain, definite, destined, determined, fated, fateful, fixed,
     indefeasible, ineluctable, ineludible, inescapable, inevasible,
     inevitable, inexorable, inflexible, irresistible, irrevocable,
     necessary, predestined, predetermined, relentless, resistless,
     settled, sure, sure as death, sure as fate, unalterable,
     unchangeable, uncontrollable, undeflectable, unevadable,
     unpreventable, unstoppable, unyielding
  
  

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