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avoidable

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From avoid +‎ -able.

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avoidable (comparative more avoidable, superlative most avoidable)

  1. Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
  2. Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
    The minister confessed that many of the deaths were avoidable.

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Noun

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avoidable (plural avoidables)

  1. Something that can or should be avoided.
    • 1980, Patrick White, The Twyborn Affair, page 38:
      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.