avoidable
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avoidable
- /əˈvɔɪdəbl̩/
adjective more avoidable · most avoidable
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Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
Similar: annullable, voidable
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Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
The minister confessed that many of the deaths were avoidable.
Similar: evitable
Similar: avertable, avoidable, dodgeable, escapable, evadable, fleeable, nonmandatory, nonobligatory, optional, preventable, preventible, resistible, skippable · Opposite: inavoidable, unavoidable, inviolable, unbreakable, unbreachable, inevitable, impossible
noun avoidables
- Something that can or should be avoided. Though Mrs Golson re-appeared regularly at the Twyborns', she was on my list of avoidables from the night of the corked moustache until she sprang upon us yesterday.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: evitable, cancelled, averted, preventable, voidable, inevitable, unavoidable, needless, unnecessary, prevented, rescinded, vacatable, annullable, defeasible, quittable, abrogable
adjective
Similar: avertable, avoidable, dodgeable, escapable, evadable, fleeable, nonmandatory, nonobligatory, optional, preventable, preventible, resistible, skippable · Opposite: inavoidable, unavoidable, inviolable, unbreakable, unbreachable, inevitable, impossible
Translations
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adj capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable
| Español | evitable |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | परिहार्य parihārya |
| Français | évitable |
| Deutsch | vermeidbar |
| Italiano | evitabile |
adj capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped
| Español | evitable |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | परिहार्य parihārya |
| Français | évitable |
| Deutsch | vermeidbar |
| Ελληνικά | αποφευκτός apofefktós |
| Русский | предотврати́мый predotvratímyj |
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title = {avoidable},
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