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Preventive

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Noun

1. preventative, preventive, prophylactic

remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease

Example Sentences:
'the doctor recommended several preventatives'

2. encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive

any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

3. birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventative, preventive, prophylactic device

an agent or device intended to prevent conception

Adjective

4. preventative, preventive, prophylactic

preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease

Example Sentences:
'preventive medicine'
'vaccines are prophylactic'
'a prophylactic drug'

5. preventative, preventive

tending to prevent or hinder

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Preventive

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adjective
1. 
tending or intended to prevent or hinder
2. medicine
a. 
tending to prevent disease; prophylactic
b. 
of or relating to the branch of medicine concerned with prolonging life and preventing disease
3. 
(in Britain) of, relating to, or belonging to the customs and excise service or the coastguard
noun
4. 
something that serves to prevent or hinder
5. medicine
any drug or agent that tends to prevent or protect against disease
6.  another name for contraceptive

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Preventive

see synonyms of preventive
adjective
1. 
preventing or serving to prevent; esp., preventing disease
noun
2. 
anything that prevents; esp., anything that prevents disease; prophylactic

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Preventive

see synonyms of preventive
adj.
1. Intended or used to prevent or hinder; acting as an obstacle: preventive measures.
2. Carried out to deter expected aggression by hostile forces.
3. Preventing or slowing the course of an illness or disease; prophylactic: preventive medicine; preventive health care.
n.
1. Something that prevents; an obstacle.
2. Something that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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