avoidable Definition

avoid
verb avoided, avoiding

1. To keep away from (a place, person, action, etc).
2. To stop, prevent, manage not to do, or escape something.

Thesaurus: evade, abstain from, elude, avert, circumvent, eschew, dodge, shirk, get out of, get around, prevent, sidestep, steer clear of, duck (slang).

Derivative: avoidable
adj

Able to be avoided
Thesaurus: evadable, escapable, unnecessary, preventable; Antonym: inevitable, exigent.

Derivative: avoidably
adverb

Derivative: avoider
noun

Idiom: avoid someone or something like the plague

To keep away from them or it completely.

Etymology: 14c: from French avoidier to empty out.

Info:

○ Avoid is neutral in meaning; evade implies an element of personal effort often involving cunning or deceit. Typically you evade more seriously unwelcome things such as arrest, detection, identification, taxes, and (quite often) the truth &wbox; &wbox; You can avoid them too, but more usually you avoid things that are more routinely unwelcome and more easily dealt with &wbox; &wbox;

○ Note that tax avoidance is legal, and tax evasion is illegal. In 1979, the UK Institute of Economic Affairs invented the word avoision so as not to have to choose always between avoidance and evasion, but the term has not caught on.