adverb

inevitably

ih-NEH-vih-tuhb-lee

adverb

In a way that can't be avoided; as was bound to happen.

"Inevitably, the delay pushed the whole project over budget."

"Cutting corners inevitably led to mistakes."

How to Use Inevitably

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishUsed to say something was bound to happen, as expected.

Common pairings

inevitably led to inevitably, this meant

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_____, the delay pushed the whole project over budget.

From inevitable + -ly.

ineluctably inescapably relentlessly sure as a gun sure as fate surely unrelentingly

evitably avoidably impossibly incidentally unexpectedly unusually

actually normally surely unexpectedly unusually relentlessly incidentally impossibly

notably probably arguably amicably suitably reliably admirably favorably miserably inexorably reasonably invariably

ineluctably inescapably relentlessly sure as a gun sure as fate surely unrelentingly evitably avoidably impossibly incidentally unexpectedly