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adjectivecapable of being avoided or warded offOpposite:
Definition that contains evitable
- sure certain to occur; destined or inevitable
- certain certain to occur; destined or inevitable
- resign accept as inevitable
- submit accept as inevitable
- uncertain not certain to occur; not inevitable
- reconcile accept as inevitable
- determinism (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will
- fatalism a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable
- deterministic an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes
- foregone conclusion an inevitable ending