Word Meanings - UNAVOIDABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void. Blackstone. Unavoidable hemorrhage , 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. --

Additional info about word: UNAVOIDABLE

Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void. Blackstone. Unavoidable hemorrhage , 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. -- Un`a*void"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`a*void"a*bly, adv. (more info) 1. Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNAVOIDABLE)

• Inevitable
• Unavoidable
• infallible
• certain
• irresistible
• fixed

Related words: (words related to UNAVOIDABLE)

• INEVITABLENESS
  The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen. Prideaux.
• FIXTURE
  Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
• IRRESISTIBLENESS
  Quality of being irrestible.
• FIXING
  Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. (more info) 1. The act or process of making fixed. 2. That which is fixed; a fixture. 3. pl.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• IRRESISTIBLE
  That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction. An irresistible law of our nature impels us to seek happiness. J. M. Mason.
• FIXURE
  Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. Shak.
• FIXEDLY
  In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
• INFALLIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being infallible; infallibility. Bp. Hall.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• CERTAIN
  1. Certainty. Gower. 2. A certain number or quantity. Chaucer.
• INFALLIBLE
  Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility. (more info) 1. Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. Dryden. 2. Not
• FIXATION
  1. The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of
• FIXABLE
  Capable of being fixed.
• INEVITABLE
  1. 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. 2. Irresistible. "Inevitable charms." Dryden.
• FIXIDITY
  Fixedness. Boyle.
• UNAVOIDABLE
  Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void. Blackstone. Unavoidable hemorrhage , 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. --
• FIXATIVE
  That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.
• FIXITY
  1. Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed. 2. Coherence of parts. Sir I. Newton.
• FIXEDNESS
  1. The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness. 2. The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• CONFIXURE
  Act of fastening.
• PREFIX
  prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. préfix fixed beforehand, 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle
• SUFFIX
  A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a. (more info) 1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• TRANSFIX
  To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
• FIX
  Fixed; solidified. Chaucer.
• PERFIX
  To fix surely; to appoint.