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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
avoidable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Running out of gas is annoying and easily avoidable.
▪ Too many children are still injured in avoidable accidents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But even this ratio puts the best possible light on the contribution made by employment to the avoidable death toll.
▪ Indeed, it would be seen as a major source of avoidable and illegal human suffering.
▪ Much of this is completely avoidable.
▪ Otherwise mutual incomprehension and avoidable conflict will continue.
▪ The list of avoidable killings not legally construed as murder even in principle could go on and on.
▪ There were potentially avoidable factors in all the cases.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avoidable

Avoidable \A*void"a*ble\, a.

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

    The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage.
    --Hale.

  2. Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
avoidable

1630s, from avoid + -able. Related: Avoidably.

Wiktionary
avoidable

a. 1 Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. 2 Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped. n. Something that can be avoided.

WordNet
avoidable

adj. capable of being avoided or warded off [syn: evitable, avertible, avertable] [ant: inevitable]

Usage examples of "avoidable".

With any sensible prenatal care, Homer knew, eclampsia was usually avoidable.

Such a position denies or glibly dismisses as necessary the very real and avoidable suffering that happens as a result of human failure.

He was merely crass of fibre and function - thoughtless, careless, and liquorish, as his easily avoidable accident proves, and without that modicum of imagination which holds the average citizen within certain limits fixed by taste.

He was merely crass of fibre and function--thoughtless, careless, and liquorish, as his easily avoidable accident proves, and without that modicum of imagination which holds the average citizen within certain limits fixed by taste.

They had no idea how universal these Dominionite dances were, and the team had enough problems as it was without committing readily avoidable blunders.

No Polypheme would ever expose itself to the totally avoidable risk of attempting a Bose transition with an invalid digit string.

That mind further contextualizes sensory contexts is neither new nor avoidable.

We need such policy criteria not only to stave off avoidable disasters, but to help us discover tomorrow's opportunities.

As you will see in the following chapters, the weight of empirical fact and large amounts of corroborating evidence indicate that the former Reagan/Bush/Quayle administrations along with their unique pharmaceutical connections (see "Bush/Quayle/Lilly Pharmaceutical Sellout" below) have probably conspired at the highest levels to withhold information and to disinform the public, resulting in the avoidable and needless deaths of tens of thousands of Americans.