Unausweichliche

Unausweichliche is a German adjective meaning unavoidable or inevitable. It denotes that something cannot be avoided or prevented and will occur as a matter of course. The form is the negated compound of ausweichlich, from ausweichen "to avoid" with the suffix -lich.

Historically, unausweichlich is built from un- plus ausweichlich, which itself derives from ausweichen "to avoid"; ausweichlich means "able to be avoided." The combination emphasizes inevitability. The closely related noun Das Unausweichliche refers to that which is inevitable.

Unausweichlich is widely used in formal and literary German as well as everyday language. It can modify nouns (eine unausweichliche Folge, ein unausweichliches Schicksal) or appear predicatively (Der Fehler war unausweichlich). In many contexts it overlaps with unvermeidlich, though unausweichlich can carry a slightly stronger sense of inexorable inevitability.

Common collocations include unausweichliche Konsequenzen, unausweichliche Entwicklung, unausweichliche Realität.