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adj
Possible to avoid; avertible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon
Synonyms: avoidable, avertable, escapable, preventable, resistible
Antonyms: ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, irresistible, unavoidable, unescapable, unpreventable
adjective
capable of being avoided or warded off
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: avoidable, avertible, avertable
Antonyms: inevitable
History
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”)).
Across languages
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