avoidable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something that can or should be avoided.
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
  2. Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
    — The minister confessed that many of the deaths were avoidable.

词形变化

more avoidable comparative most avoidable superlative avoidables plural

词汇关系

近义词
avertable avoidable dodgeable escapable evadable fleeable nonmandatory nonobligatory optional preventable preventible resistible skippable
反义词
inavoidable unavoidable inviolable unbreakable unbreachable inevitable impossible
上位词
possible
衍生词
avoidability avoidableness avoidably nonavoidable

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English avoid
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English avoidable
From avoid + -able.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English avoid
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English avoidable
From avoid + -able.
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