Meaning & use
Unescapable
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Impossible to escape or avoid.
See it in a sentence
The desert heat became an unescapable presence by midday.
He felt an unescapable sense of dread as the deadline approached.
A note on using this word
Inescapable is the more common spelling, but major dictionaries recognize unescapable as a legitimate, older variant with the same meaning.
Words with a similar meaning
inescapableinevitable
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Words with an opposite meaning
avoidableescapable
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