avoidable
Plural: avoidables
Adjective
- capable of being avoided or warded off
Adj
- Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
- Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
Noun
- Something that can or should be avoided.
Examples
- The minister confessed that many of the deaths were avoidable.
Origin / Etymology
From avoid + -able.
Synonyms
avertable, avertible, evitable, annullable, avoidable, dodgeable, escapable, evadable, fleeable, nonmandatory, nonobligatory, optional, preventable, preventible, resistible, skippable, voidable
Antonyms
inevitable, impossible, inavoidable, inviolable, unavoidable, unbreachable, unbreakable
Scrabble Score: 15
avoidable: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordavoidable: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
avoidable: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary