All 6 Uses of
inevitable
in
The Time Machine
- Now the risk was inevitable, I no longer saw it in the same cheerful light.
Chpt 3 *inevitable = certain to happen
- 'But with this change in condition comes inevitably adaptations to the change.†
Chpt 4
- And on both these days I had the restless feeling of one who shirks an inevitable duty.†
Chpt 6
- I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.†
Chpt 7
- Here, apparently, was the Palaeontological Section, and a very splendid array of fossils it must have been, though the inevitable process of decay that had been staved off for a time, and had, through the extinction of bacteria and fungi, lost ninety-nine hundredths of its force, was nevertheless, with extreme sureness if with extreme slowness at work again upon all its treasures.†
Chpt 8
- He, I know—for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made—thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(inevitable) certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)