evitable
Possible to avoid; avertible.
Adjective
- Possible to avoid; avertible.
- The tragic consequences were evitable.
- That Fort is unſafe where a part of the Garriſon conſiſts of diſguiſed Enemies; for when they take their turns at the Watch, the danger is hardly evitable. It would then certainly be for the ſafety of the Fort, that...
- A momentary ſhock like this, I ſay, may, for aught we otherwiſe know, ſooner or later, prove our lot, whenever the evitable fate of our impieties will no longer ſuffer the divine juſtice to be patient. - 1798, Thomas...
Synonyms: avoidable avertable escapable preventable resistible
Antonyms: ineluctable inescapable inevitable irresistible unavoidable unescapable unpreventable
Origin
From Middle French evitable (modern French évitable), from Latin ēvītābilis (“avoidable”), from ēvītō (“to avoid”) + -bilis (“-able”, able or worthy to be). The former is derived from ē- (“out”) + vītō (“to avoid, evade; to shun”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dwidʰeh₁- (“separate, set apart”), a compound of *dwi- (“two”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put”)).
Forms
Derived
evitability evitably inevitability inevitable inevitableness