Synonyms for avoidable
avoid·able

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1. avoidableadjective

   Antonyms:
   unavoidable

2. avoidableadjective

   Antonyms:
   unavoidable

3. avoidableadjective

   Antonyms:
   unavoidable

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1. evitable, avoidable, avertible, avertableadjective

   capable of being avoided or warded off

   Synonyms:
   avertible, avertable, evitable

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1. List of paraphrases for "avoidable":

   preventable, voidable, unnecessary

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1. Christopher Stokes:

   For the Ebola outbreak to spiral this far out of control required many institutions to fail, and they did, with tragic and avoidable consequences.

2. David Haynes:

   Isaiah is now fighting for his life as a result of these completely avoidable errors by the deputy and dispatch.

3. David Schenker:

   Mustafa Kassem death in custody was needless, tragic and avoidable, we send our sincere condolences to Mr. Kassem's wife and family at this painful time.

4. Karl Popper:

   Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

5. Darin Hoover:

   As a father, seeing that and the disrespect, and hearing from his former leaders, one of [Taylor's] master sergeants said … that this was avoidable -- that they left them over there: They had them over there and let them down, and we can't have that.