voidable

American  

[voi-duh-buhl] / ˈvɔɪ də bəl /

adjective

1. capable of being nullified or invalidated.

2. Law. capable of being made or adjudged void.

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ˈvoidable British  

/ ˈvɔɪdəbəl /

adjective

1. capable of being voided

2. capable of being made of no legal effect or made void

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Other Word Forms

• nonvoidable adjective
• unvoidable adjective
• voidableness noun

Etymology

Origin of voidable

First recorded in 1475–85; void + -able

Example Sentences

The extension includes voidable years in 2024 and 2025, which greatly reduced his cap hit for the upcoming season.

From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2022

The team also could tack on voidable years to Daron Payne’s contract to convert part of his fifth-year option into a signing bonus that can be prorated over multiple years.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2022

But the Seahawks guaranteed that provision, by adding a voidable year to Brown’s contract for 2022.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2021

You have great language throughout the poem I love especially my escape was mundane then voidable I suppose you know a word we'd never use is the opposite unavoidable.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2018

Chopin concludes that a lease is only voidable in case of material defect, or nuisance, as of pestilential air, not in a case which, after all, is a mere vice d’esprit. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew