unescapableadj.
/ˌʌnᵻˈskeɪpəbl/, U.S. /ˌənᵻˈskeɪpəb(ə)l/ (un- prefix1 1b.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > [adjective] > inevitable
uneschewablec1374
unscapablea1382
ineschewable1412
inevitablec1430
intreatable1509
unevitable1539
forcible1574
inextricable1576
unavoidable1577
resistless1590
unshunning1593
unavoided1597
inexorable1600
unpreventablea1601
fatal1605
irrenitible1605
unvoided1612
unescapable1614
shunlessa1616
unshunnablea1616
ineluctable1623
unpreventible1632
undefensablea1642
undeclinable1652
indeclinable1658
ineludible1662
avoidlessa1668
inavoidable1670
infrustrable1677
unhinderable1678
wardless1693
unfrustrable1714
unparryable1770
inescapable1792
inexcludible1817
unproscribable1817
unprecludible1825
undeliverable1843
inevasible1846
scapeless1850
deviceless1851
escapeless1855
unevadable1857
ineliminable1875
inavertible1885
unavertible1897
voidless1908
1614 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 197 In this particular, I am under an unescapable necessity.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) V. 217 She exposes her self to an imminent, and (for any thing she knew) an unescapable danger of death.
1832 L. Hunt Redi's Bacchus 135 Gall of the satiric poet, Gall from out his blackest well, Shuddering, unescapeable.
1886 W. Graham Social Probl. 243 A power more subtle and all-compelling and unescapable than that of the sword.
Derivatives
uneˈscapableness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > [noun] > inevitability
unavoidableness1599
unescapableness1610
inevitablenessa1631
inavoidableness1640
indeclinableness1648
inevitability1649
fatation1652
uninterruptibleness1654
necessitude1677
fatality1699
resistlessness1794
unavoidability1858
unpreventableness1884
ineluctability1943
inescapability1945
1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr xii. 353 With how much curiositie and unescapablenesse their formes of Abiuration vnder oath are exhibited?
uneˈscapably adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > necessity > [adverb] > inevitably
uneschewablyc1374
without defencec1430
inevitably1447
unscapablyc1449
necessarlya1500
no remedy1531
unavoidably1608
indeclinably1624
unevitably1624
unpreventablya1639
need1641
unfrustrably1654
ineluctably1655
inavoidably1674
unhinderably1678
resistlessly1725
inevadibly1842
infrustrably1861
undivertibly1866
inescapably1881
unescapably1882
deterministically1885
indissuadablya1894
ineludibly1893
1882 Good Words Apr. 174 With a certain twinkle at the back of his eye,..full, unescapably full of fun.
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