avoidable

1. 1

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

2. 2

   Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

   • The minister confessed that many of the deaths were avoidable.

syn. avertable · avoidable · dodgeable · escapable · evadable · fleeable · nonmandatory · nonobligatory · optional · preventable · preventible · resistible

ant. inavoidable · unavoidable · inviolable · unbreakable · unbreachable · inevitable · impossible

1. 1

   Something that can or should be avoided.

   • Though Mrs Golson re-appeared regularly at the Twyborns', she was on my list of avoidables from the night of the corked moustache until she sprang upon us yesterday.