immancabile
Italian
Etymology
From im- + mancare (“to miss”) + -abile. Compare French immanquable.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /im.manˈka.bi.le/
- Rhymes: -abile
- Hyphenation: im‧man‧cà‧bi‧le
Adjective
immancabile (plural immancabili)
- that cannot be missed out on; unmissable
- Synonym: imperdibile
- l'immancabile cenone di fine d'anno ― the must-attend end-of-year dinner
- that always imposes its presence; that is difficult to miss or not notice; ever-present; unmissable
- è arrivato il direttore con l'immancabile caposquadra
- the director arrived with his ever-present foreman
- inevitable
- Synonym: inevitabile
- 2019, George Orwell, translated by Nicola Gardini, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mondadori:
- Per lei, l'immancabile sconfitto dell'individuo non era una legge di natura.
- She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated.
- (literally, “For her, the inevitable defeat of the individual was not a law of nature.”)
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