Definitions
Etymologies
- From Latin evitabilis ("avoidable"), from evitare ("to avoid"), from e ("out") + vitare ("to shun"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin ēvītābilis, from ēvītāre, to shun : ex-, ex- + vītāre, to avoid. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I also failed to predict the Catholic Bishops' forcing the president into overtime in Birth Control Bowl MMXII, or Rick Santorum's trifecta on Tuesday night is it time to officially downgrade Romney from inevitable GOP nominee to evitable GOP nominee?”
“That's why when government deregulalized lending subprime lenders came in and took advantage of the uneducated and corporations backed this quick windfall knowing the evitable crisis that would come but also knowing they would get a parachute or a government bailout.”
“The Hillary campaign decided to largely ignore him and simply appear "inevitable" until it was too late and they were supremely "evitable".”
“And commenter "Petey" in this Yglesias post makes as good an argument as I've seen that Obama is very evitable, and that Edwards and Clinton are still very much alive.”
“Sidenote 1: Most development professionals will tell you that urbanization and the specialization of labor that takes place is evitable as a country continues to progress along its road of development.”
“The idea, however, is to persuade you to stay on the horse, despite the evitable disappointment, in the 'hope' that things will change.”
“But yes, "invevitable and uninevitable" (or "evitable?") are not the most illuminating categories.”
“This leads to an evitable loss of their medical license and right to practice their chosen profession.”
Medical Whistleblower Letter to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
“Turns out a certain inevitability has proven to be highly evitable.”
“But then the evitable happened when a single man and woman are friends.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘evitable’.
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Deprefixed words
A list of words you more frequently hear used with prefixes than without.
clement, witting, ravel, whelm, fettered, licit, couth, bridled, wieldy, kempt, ingenuous, iterate and 116 more...
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When In Entropic~al English Locales.....
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englishable, toesmithing, zwimmer, woad, wherefore, bobance, pediluvium, ruff, anteloquy, februation, lungeous, chalm and 357 more...
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What's next here?
thunderhead, thundercloud, cumulus, cumulonimbus, fibrous, hazy, glaciated, cirrus, nimbus, meteorology, fahrenheit, thermoscope and 285 more...
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The Wørd
Trademark of Stephen Colbert and The Colbert Report.
truthiness, bacchanalia, disappointed, love handles, pussy, overrated, perspective, quitter, alito, camilla-mania, cat, shhhh!... and 335 more...
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today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
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Prosie: How I Met My Wife
by Jack Winter
Published 25 July 1994, The New Yorker
It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and conso...requited, committal, at a godly hour, defatigable, to much avail, choate, advertently, nomer, up to some good, savory character, mayed, bunk a few myths and 52 more...
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Words I've Had to Look Up
These are words I've had to look up.
ingurgitate, torpor, louche, ursine, susurrous, periphrasis, solipsism, estival, golem, plangent, plebiscite, picaresque and 8 more...
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Various
inselberg, excoriate, counterveil, palliate, exorable, wieldy, evitable, pseudandry, maritorious, patrocliny, liminal, span-new and 24 more...
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English Two – Summer 2009: Weekly Words
Words that were posted on our English Two blog.
The semester and the course are over now, so this list can be considered finalized.salient, ersatz, purloin, trollop, blitz, dwelling, ample, to get the ax, draconian, madeupical, eerie, gunslinger and 58 more...
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