preventable C2+ Topic:Describing People Also spelled preventible US /prɪˈvɛntəbəl/ UK /prɪˈvɛntəbəl/ See IPA manual Meanings 1 adj capable of being stopped or kept from happening Many of these accidents were entirely preventable with basic precautions. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 adj · capable of being stopped or... avoidablepreventiblestoppableavertableescapable ↔ Opposites unpreventableinevitableunavoidableinescapable Word family Derived forms preventablypreventabilitypreventableness Related forms preventpreventionpreventive Etymology AI details From prevent (from Latin praevenire 'to come before, anticipate, hinder', from prae- 'before' + venire 'to come') + the suffix -able. praevenire Latin venire Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Describing People Word Formation & Derivatives External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # preventable **Type:** Word **Level:** C2+ **Part of speech:** adj **IPA (US):** /prɪˈvɛntəbəl/ **IPA (UK):** /prɪˈvɛntəbəl/ ## Meanings 1. capable of being stopped or kept from happening ## Examples - Many of these accidents were entirely preventable with basic precautions. ## Synonyms - avoidable - preventible - stoppable - avertable - escapable ## Antonyms - unpreventable - inevitable - unavoidable - inescapable ## Derived Forms - preventably - preventability - preventableness ## Related Forms - prevent - prevention - preventive ## Roots and Affixes - Root: praevenire - Root: venire ## Etymology From prevent (from Latin praevenire 'to come before, anticipate, hinder', from prae- 'before' + venire 'to come') + the suffix -able. ## AI Etymology Preventable is from prevent (from Latin praevenire 'to come before, anticipate, hinder', from prae- 'before' + venire 'to come') + the suffix -able. Important recorded forms include praevenire (Latin) and venire (Latin). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense remains close to that composition, with the parts narrowing into a single lexical item. In current use it covers capable of being stopped or kept from happening. The wider family includes derived forms such as preventably, preventability, and preventableness and related words such as prevent, prevention, and preventive. ## Topics - Describing People - Word Formation & Derivatives markdown