evitable

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   capable of being avoided or prevented; not inevitable

   Most of the delay was evitable if the team had checked the route beforehand.

Borrowed through Middle French evitable from Latin evitabilis, 'avoidable,' based on evitare, 'to avoid or shun,' and the ability suffix -bilis. Although now uncommon, evitable is the direct positive counterpart of inevitable.

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