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avertible

avertible

7.4
Something you can avoid before it happens
  • adjective
  • /əˈvɜːrtəbl/
translation icon : evitable
  • Many diseases are avertible through proper hygiene and vaccination.

Examples

  • The accident was avertible if safety protocols had been followed.

  • Environmental damage is often avertible with timely intervention.

  • This issue is avertible if we work together.

  • Is this situation avertible with some changes?

  • Many diseases are avertible through proper hygiene and vaccination.

  • Environmental damage is often avertible with timely intervention.

  • The accident was avertible if safety protocols had been followed.

Synonyms

preventable
vsavertible
36 3.5

Someone can stop it by acting before it happens

is broader capability to be avoided without stressing prior action
avoidable
vsavertible
15 3.1

Something you can prevent by taking action

is about general possibility rather than rule or refusal
evitable
vsavertible
1 9.9

Something you can avoid

is identical in meaning but differs only as a different form
avertable
vsavertible
6.5

Possible to prevent by taking action

is the general capability not stressing active defense

Antonyms

inevitable
1 5.3

An event that cannot be avoided

unpreventable
1 6.3

Impossible to stop from happening

How Preventable

avoidable
15 3.1
avertible
7.4
inevitable
467 4.6

Surface Forms

avertible positive

Morphology

avertible = avert (transparent) = avert + ible

Formed by the verb 'avert' plus the adjectival suffix '-ible', meaning 'capable of being averted', which is directly predictable from the base.

Etymology

Avertible comes from the verb avert, which means 'to turn away', and from the root vert meaning 'turn' (seen in words like divert and convert). So, something avertible is something that can be 'turned away' or stopped before it happens.