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Unavoidable vs Shunless - What's the difference?

unavoidable | shunless |

As adjectives the difference between unavoidable and shunless

is that unavoidable is impossible to avoid; bound to happen while shunless is (obsolete) that cannot be shunned; unavoidable or inevitable.

As a noun unavoidable

is something that cannot be avoided.

unavoidable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Impossible to avoid; bound to happen.
  • (legal) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void.
    • (Blackstone)

    Usage notes

    * See usage notes at inevitable.

    Synonyms

    * (impossible to avoid) inescapable, inevitable

    Antonyms

    * (impossible to avoid) avoidable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that cannot be avoided.
  • * 1825 , The London magazine (volume 12, page 490)
    • Forty years before, I had thought this odour one of the necessities of life — one of the unavoidables at least

    shunless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) That cannot be shunned; unavoidable or inevitable

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