If something is inevitable, it is certain to happen and cannot be prevented or avoided. If the case succeeds, it is inevitable that other trials will follow The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy. = unavoidable The inevitable is something which is inevitable. `It's just delaying the inevitable,' he said
an unavoidable event; "don't argue with the inevitable" incapable of being avoided or prevented; "the inevitable result" invariably occurring or appearing; "the inevitable changes of the seasons