avoidableadj.
/əˈvɔɪdəb(ə)l/ 1. Liable to be made void or become invalid; voidable. ? Obsolete.
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society > law > rule of law > illegality > [adjective] > legally invalid or faulty > annulled or abrogated > able to be
voidable1485
repealable1570
reversable1581
countermandablea1626
reducible1656
annullable1675
avoidablea1677
elidable1687
quashable1705
nullablea1718
a1677 M. Hale Hist. Common Law (1971) vii. 41 The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage.
1818 H. T. Colebrooke Treat. Obligations & Contracts 228 The acts of a madman, lunatic, or idiot..are void or avoidable.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [adjective] > that avoids or shuns > avoided or shunned > to be avoided
avoidable1610
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xix. iv. 759 If those euills make it avoydable, what is become of the blisse?
1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. i. 145 Another Division of Things external; that is, Pursuable, Avoidable, and Indifferent.
3. Capable of being avoided or escaped.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [adjective] > that avoids or shuns > avoided or shunned > able to be
shunnable1570
avoidable1638
the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [adjective] > taking evasive action > evaded > that can be
evitable1502
evadable1857
avoidable1859
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iii. §52 If the cause of it be some voluntary and avoidable fault, the Errour is it selfe sinfull.
1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty 176 From idleness or from any other avoidable cause.
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