evitable

1 9.9

Something you can avoid

adjective
/ˈɛvɪtəbl/

: evitable

There are lots of things that are evitable today that weren't inevitable, that were inevitable before.

Examples

Evitable or not, that is the question for Wally out there.

Fiction book (1993)
...evitable.

In the Loop (2009)
By planning ahead, we can make sure that the mistakes are evitable rather than inevitable.
With careful management, many disasters are evitable if addressed early.
The team realized that their mistakes were evitable with better communication.

Synonyms

preventable

vsevitable

36 3.5

Someone can stop it by acting before it happens

is the general notion of being possible to stop without stressing prior action

avoidable

vsevitable

15 3.1

Something you can prevent by taking action

is the general concept of being possible to escape or stop

avertible

vsevitable

7.4

Something you can avoid before it happens

is the same general possibility expressed differently

avertable

vsevitable

6.5

Possible to prevent by taking action

is the broad idea of being possible to stop rather than the action

Antonyms

inevitable

1 5.3

An event that cannot be avoided

How Avoidable

evitable

1 9.9

preventable

36 3.5

inevitable

467 4.6

Surface Forms

evitable positive

Morphology

evitable = evit (opaque) = evit + able

The stem 'evit' is not a productive standalone English word and learners will not readily connect it to the common verb 'avoid', so the derivation is not inferable for average learners.

Etymology

Evitable comes from Latin parts e- meaning 'away' and vitare meaning 'to avoid', the same root as the common word avoid. So, if something is evitable, it can be kept 'away' or stopped, which is the opposite of inevitable.