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1. (adj.) preventive
serving to prevent or hinder:
preventive measures.
2. preventive
concerned with prevention, as of disease:
preventive medicine.
3. (n.) preventive
a drug or other substance for preventing disease.
4. preventive
a preventive agent or measure.
Etymology: (1630–40)
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| Definition of 'Preventive' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) preventive, preventative, prophylactic
remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
"the doctor recommended several preventatives"
2. (noun) hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference
any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
3. (adj) contraceptive, preventive, preventative, contraceptive device, prophylactic device, birth control device
an agent or device intended to prevent conception
4. (adj) preventive, preventative, prophylactic
preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
"preventive medicine"; "vaccines are prophylactic"; "a prophylactic drug"
5. (adj) preventive, preventative
tending to prevent or hinder
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1. (adjective) preventive
done as a way of preventing sth
preventive medicine
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| Definition of 'Preventive' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) Preventive
going before; preceding
2. (adj) Preventive
tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease
3. (noun) Preventive
that which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic
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Sense: that helps to prevent illness etc
preventive medicine.
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 Afrikaans: voorkomend |
 Arabic: واقٍ، وِقائي، مانِع |
 Bulgarian: профилактичен |
 Brazilian: preventivo |
 Czech: preventivní |
 German: vorbeugend |
 Danish: forebyggende |
 Greek: προληπτικός |
 Spanish: preventivo |
 Estonian: ärahoidev |
 Farsi: پیشگیرانه |
 Finnish: ehkäisevä |
 French: préventif |
 Hebrew: מוֹנֵע |
 Hindi: निवारक |
 Croatian: preventivan, zaštitni |
 Hungarian: megelőző |
 Indonesian: pencegahan |
 Icelandic: forvarnar- |
 Italian: preventivo |
 Japanese: 予防の |
 Korean: 예방적인 |
 Lithuanian: apsauginis, profilaktinis |
 Latvian: preventīvs; profilaktisks |
 Malay: pencegahan |
 Dutch: preventief |
 Norwegian: forebyggende, preventiv |
 Polish: zapobiegawczy |
 Persian: وقايوى، پیشگیرانه |
 Pashto: وقايوى، مخنيوى |
 Portuguese: preventivo |
 Romanian: preventiv |
 Russian: профилактический |
 Slovak: preventívny |
 Slovenian: preventiven |
 Serbian: preventivan |
 Swedish: preventiv, förebyggande |
 Thai: เกี่ยวกับการป้องกันโรค |
 Turkish: önleyici, koruyucu |
 Taiwanese: 預防的 |
 Ukrainian: запобіжний; профілактични |
 Urdu: مانع مرض |
 Vietnamese: ngăn ngừa |
 Chinese: 预防的 |
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