avoidable

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Capable of being vacated

   Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.

2. 2

   Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

   • The minister confessed that many of the deaths were avoidable.
   • Beyond the avoidable deaths that are already visible, something ominous is happening below the surface in crisis zones.
   • For their part, Europeans say they are not wavering from their decision not to get involved in a war they believe was not necessary, that they were not consulted on, and which now has triggered an avoidable global economic crisis.
3. 3

   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.

The neighborhood

• synonymavertable
• synonymavoidable
• synonymdodgeable
• synonymescapable
• synonymevadable
• synonymfleeable
• synonymnonmandatory
• synonymnonobligatory
• synonymoptional
• synonympreventable
• synonympreventible
• synonymresistible
• antonyminavoidableantonym(s) of “ALL”
• antonymunavoidableantonym(s) of “ALL”
• antonyminviolableantonym(s) of “capable of being vacated”
• antonymunbreakableantonym(s) of “capable of being vacated”
• antonymunbreachableantonym(s) of “capable of being vacated”
• antonyminevitableantonym(s) of
• antonymimpossible
• neighborpossible