Antonyms for avoidable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : uh-void
Phonetic Transcription : əˈvɔɪd


Definition of avoidable

Origin :
  • 1630s, from avoid + -able. Related: Avoidably.
  • adj preventable
Example sentences :
  • Yes, I am a little oppressed just now with overwork, nor is this avoidable.
  • Extract from : « Hortus Inclusus » by John Ruskin
  • Do not pass between two persons who are talking together, if avoidable.
  • Extract from : « The Etiquette of To-day » by Edith B. Ordway
  • Your orders are simply to make a reconnaissance and to run no avoidable risks.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Scouts on the Trail » by George Durston
  • Divorce was bad; it was evil; it was avoidable in almost every case.
  • Extract from : « The Homesteader » by Oscar Micheaux
  • The unavoidable losses are few in number; the avoidable, many.
  • Extract from : « Health, Happiness, and Longevity » by Louis Philippe McCarty
  • Such accidents always are avoidable if a man realizes the danger.
  • Extract from : « Farm Mechanics » by Herbert A. Shearer
  • The avoidable decay of the smallest member is an injury to the whole.
  • Extract from : « The English in the West Indies » by James Anthony Froude
  • Believe me, Madame, this office is distasteful to me, but it was not avoidable.
  • Extract from : « The Puppet Crown » by Harold MacGrath
  • Whether in art or in life I am no lover of an avoidable anticlimax.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Susan » by Lee Wilson Dodd
  • Vaguely it came home to him that the menace might be avoidable.
  • Extract from : « Brood of the Witch-Queen » by Sax Rohmer

Synonyms for avoidable

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