Definition of "ineluctable" [in•e•luc•ta•ble]

• Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable: "Those war plans rested on a belief in the ineluctable superiority of the offense over the defense” ( Jack Beatty). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "ROME—Italy's business elite Friday demanded rapid and bold action by the government to avoid what they called an "ineluctable slide into economic and social decline.""
• "The unhavable experience, which cannot be had; the absolute ineluctable which is ineluctable: how can I talk about it?"
• "We could be misled if we considered the rise of the nones simply a symptom of ineluctable secularization."