Antonyms for avoidable
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uh-void |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈvɔɪd |
Definition of avoidable
Origin :- 1630s, from avoid + -able. Related: Avoidably.
- adj preventable
- 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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