evitable — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Possible to avoid; avertible.

   Usage

   • Uncommon

   Synonyms

   avoidableavertableescapablepreventableresistible

   Antonyms

   ineluctableinescapableinevitableirresistibleunavoidableunescapableunpreventable

   Examples

   The tragic consequences were evitable.

   More examples (4)

   That Fort is unſafe where a part of the Garriſon conſiſts of diſguiſed Enemies; for when they take their turns at the Watch, the danger is hardly evitable. It would then certainly be for the ſafety of the Fort, that ſuch Friends in Maſquerade were induſtrouſly kept out, inſtead of being whipt in.

   A momentary ſhock like this, I ſay, may, for aught we otherwiſe know, ſooner or later, prove our lot, whenever the evitable fate of our impieties will no longer ſuffer the divine juſtice to be patient.

   The "disintegration" [of the intellect] of which I speak may be evitable or inevitable, good or bad; to draw its optimistic or pessimistic conclusions is an occupation for prophets and makers of almanacks, of whom I am not one.

   [W]e will analyze the imaging performance through the compensated bilayer lens theoretically and explore the effects of loss and retardation in the material parameters on the image quality, which are evitable in realistic metamaterials.

Adjective

1. capable of being avoided or warded off

   Synonyms

   avoidableavertibleavertable

   Antonyms

   inevitable