different between avoidable vs evitable

English

Etymology

From avoid +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v??d?bl?/

Adjective

avoidable (comparative more avoidable, superlative most avoidable)

1. Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
2. Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

Synonyms

• (capable of being vacated): annullable, voidable
• (capable of being avoided): evitable; See also Thesaurus:avoidable

Antonyms

• (ALL): inavoidable, unavoidable
• (capable of being vacated): inviolable, unbreakable, unbreachable
• (capable of being avoided): inevitable; See also Thesaurus:inevitable

Translations

Noun

avoidable (plural avoidables)

1. Something that can or should be avoided.
   • 1980, Patrick White, The Twyborn Affair (page 38)

     Though Mrs Golson re-appeared regularly at the Twyborns', she was on my list of avoidables from the night of the corked moustache until she sprang upon us yesterday.

English

Etymology

From Middle French evitable (modern French évitable), from Latin ?v?t?bilis (“avoidable”), from ?v?t? (“to avoid”) + -bilis (“-able”, suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’). ?v?t? is derived from ?- (“prefix meaning ‘out’”) + v?t? (“to avoid, evade; to shun”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dwid?eh?- (“separate, set apart”), a compound of *dwi- (“two”) + *d?eh?- (“to put”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v?t?b(?)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v?t?b(?)l/, /-??-/
• Hyphenation: evi?ta?ble

Adjective

evitable (comparative more evitable, superlative most evitable)

1. (uncommon) Possible to avoid; avertible. [from early 16th c.]

   Synonyms: avoidable, avertable, escapable, preventable, resistible

   Antonyms: ineluctable, inescapable, inevitable, irresistible, unavoidable, unescapable, unpreventable

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “evitable”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ?v?t?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?.vi?ta.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?.bi?ta.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /e.vi?ta.ble/
• Homophone: habitable (Central)

Adjective

evitable (masculine and feminine plural evitables)

1. avoidable

   Antonym: inevitable

Related terms

• evitar

Further reading

• “evitable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “evitable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “evitable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “evitable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Alternative forms

• evitábel

Etymology

From Latin ?v?t?bilis.

Adjective

evitable m or f (plural evitables)

1. avoidable

Antonyms

• inevitábel, inevitable

Related terms

• evitar

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ?v?t?bilis. Cognate with rare English evitable.

Adjective

evitable (plural evitables)

1. avoidable

   Antonym: inevitable

Related terms

• evitar