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Like something that really shouldn't have happened
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preventable
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Word definitions for preventable in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. capable of being prevented; "conscious of preventable human suffering"- A.L.Guerard [ant: unpreventable ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from prevent + -able .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. able to be or fit to be prevented
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preventable \Pre*vent"a*ble\, a. Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
Usage examples of preventable.
The chief obstacle in the way of this ideal is Anglo-Saxon prudery, and, perhaps, the reader will not be persuaded that education for parenthood is our greatest educational need to-day, more especially for girls, until he or she has been persuaded of the magnitude of the preventable evils which flow from our present neglect of this matter.
Letting some preventable external threat destroy this colony when a couple of Bolos old enough to make them second-tier assets at the front could have prevented it would have been criminally negligent.
Simple, natural peoples like the Specks are often unaware that all diseases have a cause and hence are preventable.
We should be prepared to accept every loss by enemy action that is necessary to the success of our mission here--but I will not accept a single casualty due to inattentiveness, incompetence, carelessness, inefficiency, or preventable failures of ships and munitions.
On entering adult life, however, a young person so educated will find himself or herself plunged into a world full of injustice, full of cruelty, full of preventable misery.