avertable

Possible to prevent

Avertable describes something that can be prevented or turned away before it happens.

A disaster, crisis, or tragedy may be avertable if timely action is taken: The accident was entirely avertable had the warning signs been heeded.

The spelling avertible is also used, though avertable is more common.

The word implies that intervention or foresight could change an outcome that might otherwise seem inevitable.

avoidable

preventable

Capable of being stopped

shunnable · bypassable · deflectable · obviated · foreseeable · anticipatable · predictable · stoppable · blockable · interceptable

controllable

manageable

Able to be controlled

directable · handleable · correctable · influenceable · containable · checkable · restrainable · curbed · suppressible · tameable

changeable

modifiable

Able to be changed

amendable · rectifiable · remediable · fixable · revocable · undoable · salvageable · reparable · recoverable

Opposites
preventability

avertableinevitable

Certain to occur

unavoidable · inescapable · ineluctable · unavertable · inexorable

Family

convert, universe, vertical, advertise, vortex, avert, controversy, divert, invert

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G