preventable

Speech parts

1. preventable - Noun

2. preventable - Adjective

Meaning

Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

needless prevent avoid afford useless avert gratuitous curable avoidable unnecessary preclusive avertible evitable escapable correctable
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Antonyms

unpreventable certain fatal decisive inevitable categorical
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Phrases with the word

vaccine-preventable disease

Examples

When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day. Benjamin Mkapa

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. Enoch Powell

Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

People living with AIDS should not be dying from preventable and treatable diseases. George W. Bush

The panel put targets, for example, on nutrition, education, ending preventable child deaths, encouraging birth registration, putting an end to violence against girls, and child marriage - all of which, if enacted, will improve the lives of billions of children throughout the world. Tawakkol Karman

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death. Christy Turlington

Close letter words and terms

prevent the entry to prevent the trouble preventability preventableness preventably preventative