evitable

Adjective

capable of being avoided or warded off

Adj

Possible to avoid; avertible.

Examples

The tragic consequences were evitable.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle French evitable (modern French évitable), from Latin ēvītābilis (“avoidable”), from ēvītō (“to avoid”) + -bilis (“-able”, able or worthy to be). The former is derived from ē- (“out”) + vītō (“to avoid, evade; to shun”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dwidʰeh₁- (“separate, set apart”), a compound of *dwi- (“two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put”)).

Synonyms

avertable, avertible, avoidable, escapable, preventable, resistible

Antonyms

inevitable, ineluctable, inescapable, irresistible, unavoidable, unescapable, unpreventable

Scrabble Score: 13

evitable: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
evitable: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
evitable: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

evitable: valid Words With Friends Word