Synonyms:
evitable, avoidable, avertible, avertable
Meaning: capable of being avoided or warded off
Usage examples
He was given to musing but not to avoidable action, and he seemed habitually to hope for something which he was pretty sure would not happen.
Against all these old isolations, these obsolescent particularisms, the forces of mechanical and scientific development fight, and fight irresistibly; and upon the general recognition of this conflict, upon the intelligence and courage with which its inflexible conditions are negotiated, depends very largely the amount of bloodshed and avoidable misery the coming years will hold.