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Unavoidable vs Unstoppable - What's the difference?

unavoidable | unstoppable |

As adjectives the difference between unavoidable and unstoppable

is that unavoidable is impossible to avoid; bound to happen while unstoppable is unable to be stopped.

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

    unstoppable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unable to be stopped.
    • King Hrothgar thought that Grendel was unstoppable .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 20 , author=Jamie Lillywhite , title=Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=However Russian Pavlyuchenko stunned his compatriots with an unstoppable 25-yard drive into the top corner.}}

    Antonyms

    * stoppable

    Derived terms

    * unstoppably