preventable

pre·vent

 (prĭ-vĕnt′)

v. pre·vent·ed, pre·vent·ing, pre·vents

v.tr.

1. To keep from happening; avert: took steps to prevent the strike.

2. To keep (a person or thing) from doing something; impede: prevented us from winning; prevented the disease from spreading.

3. Archaic

a. To anticipate or counter in advance.

b. To come before; precede.

v.intr.

To present an obstacle: There will be a picnic if nothing prevents.

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[Middle English preventen, to anticipate, from Latin praevenīre, praevent- : prae-, pre- + venīre, to come; see g^wā- in Indo-European roots.]

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pre·vent′a·bil′i·ty, pre·vent′i·bil′i·ty n.

pre·vent′a·ble, pre·vent′i·ble adj.

pre·vent′er n.

Synonyms: prevent, preclude, avert, obviate, forestall
These verbs mean to stop or hinder something from happening, especially by advance planning or action. Prevent implies anticipatory counteraction: "Some contemporaries believed that capitalism and the rise of an international economy would prevent war among 'civilized' states" (John Howard Morrow).
To preclude is to exclude the possibility of an event or action: "a tranquillity which ... his wife's presence would have precluded" (John Henry Newman).
Avert and obviate imply that something, such as a difficulty or necessity, has been removed or avoided: The pilot's quick thinking averted an accident. The short duration of the journey obviated the need for large food supplies. Forestall usually suggests anticipatory measures taken to counteract, neutralize, or nullify the effects of something: We installed an alarm system to forestall break-ins.

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Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

preventable - capable of being prevented; "conscious of preventable human suffering"- A.L.Guerard unpreventable - not preventable; "unpreventable hysteria"

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Translations

parableévitable

elháríthatóelkerülhetőmegakadályozhatómegelőzhető

preventable

[prɪˈventəbl] ADJ → evitable

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

preventable

[prɪˈvɛntəb^əl] adj → évitable

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

preventable

adj → vermeidbar, verhütbar

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

preventable

[prɪˈvɛntəbl] adj → che può essere prevenuto/a, evitabile

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

preventable

adj prevenible; — disease enfermedad f prevenible

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