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evitable adjective uk /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/ able to be avoided or prevented: 可避免的 He believes that world war is evitable.他认为世界大战是可以避免的。 Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness. The most serious crisis since the Great Depression was entirely evitable. Failure is an evitable part of the innovation process. It can be hard to come to terms with the evitable consequences of one's own stupidity. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Preventing and impeding anti-drug anti-jamming avoid avoidable avoidably fireproof flameproof guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom head off preclusion preclusive prejudice prevent preventable scuttle smother suffocate |