Evitable

//ˈɛvɪtəb(ə)l// adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Possible to avoid; avertible. uncommon

    "The tragic consequences were evitable."

Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of being avoided or warded off wordnet

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avertableavertableavertibleavoidableavoidabledodgeable

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""Peace is evitable", said the old general."

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”)).

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