adjective
- incapable of being evaded; inescapable: an ineluctable destiny.
adjective
- (esp of fate) incapable of being avoided; inescapable
“not to be escaped by struggling,” 1620s, from Latin ineluctabilis “unavoidable, inevitable,” from in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + eluctari “to struggle out of,” from ex- “out” (see ex-) + luctari “to struggle” (see reluctance).