Meaning & use
Evitable
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Able to be avoided or escaped.
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Some critics argued the crisis was entirely evitable had leaders acted sooner.
Few dangers on the trail are truly evitable once the storm rolls in.
A note on using this word
Though logically the positive counterpart of 'inevitable,' 'evitable' is far rarer in modern English, which mostly prefers 'avoidable.'
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