ineluctably

1. 1.

   by necessity

   “the situation slid inescapably toward disaster”

   Synonymsinescapablyinevitablyunavoidably

Questions about ineluctably

What does ineluctably mean?

ineluctably means "by necessity".

How many syllables are in ineluctably?

ineluctably has 5 syllables and divides as i-ne-luc-ta-bly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ineluctably?

Close synonyms include inescapably, inevitably, unavoidably. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.