"avoidable" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /əˈvɔɪdəbl̩/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-avoidable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: more avoidable [comparative], most avoidable [superlative]
Etymology: From avoid + -able. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|avoid|able}} avoid + -able Head templates: {{en-adj}} avoidable (comparative more avoidable, superlative most avoidable)
  1. Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. Synonyms (capable of being vacated): annullable, voidable Translations (capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable): leegbaar (Dutch), vermeidbar (German), evitabile (Italian), evitable (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-avoidable-en-adj-~Y7dgTJZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -able Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 34 30 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -able: 34 38 28 Disambiguation of 'capable of being vacated': 82 18 Disambiguation of 'capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable': 94 6
  2. Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped. Synonyms (capable of being avoided): evitable Translations (capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped): φευκτός (pheuktós) (Ancient Greek), নিবার্য (nibarjo) (Bengali), evitable (Catalan), voorkoombaar (Dutch), vermijdbaar (Dutch), évitable (French), vermeidbar (German), αποφευκτός (apofefktós) (Greek), elkerülhető (Hungarian), evitabilis (Latin), предотврати́мый (predotvratímyj) (Russian), evitable (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-avoidable-en-adj-Z48svY~q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -able Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 34 30 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -able: 34 38 28 Disambiguation of 'capable of being avoided': 32 68 Disambiguation of 'capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped': 11 89
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hypernyms: possible

Noun

IPA: /əˈvɔɪdəbl̩/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-avoidable.wav [Southern-England] Forms: avoidables [plural]
Etymology: From avoid + -able. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|avoid|able}} avoid + -able Head templates: {{en-noun}} avoidable (plural avoidables)
  1. Something that can or should be avoided.
    Sense id: en-avoidable-en-noun-9dodFtjk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -able Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 34 30 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -able: 34 38 28

Inflected forms

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    "English terms with audio links"
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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "avoid",
        "3": "able"
      },
      "expansion": "avoid + -able",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From avoid + -able.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "avoidables",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "avoidable (plural avoidables)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1980, Patrick White, The Twyborn Affair, page 38",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that can or should be avoided."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/əˈvɔɪdəbl̩/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-avoidable.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dc/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-avoidable.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-avoidable.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/dc/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-avoidable.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-avoidable.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "avoidable"
}

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