avoidable

About 0.58 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   The minister confessed that many of the deaths were avoidable.

3. noun Something that can or should be avoided.

Similar words

evitable cancelled averted preventable voidable inevitable unavoidable needless unnecessary prevented

Often followed by

and by costs consequences delay if in or cost