Definitions for préventive
prɪˈvɛn tɪv; -tə tɪvpréven·tive

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. preventive, preventative, prophylacticnoun

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

   "the doctor recommended several preventatives"

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

   any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

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

   an agent or device intended to prevent conception

4. preventive, preventative, prophylacticadjective

   preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease

   "preventive medicine"; "vaccines are prophylactic"; "a prophylactic drug"

5. preventive, preventativeadjective

   tending to prevent or hinder

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. preventivenoun

   A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.

2. preventivenoun

   A thing that slows the development of an illness.

3. preventivenoun

   A contraceptive, especially a condom.

4. preventiveadjective

   Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.

5. preventiveadjective

   Carried out to deter military aggression.

6. preventiveadjective

   Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Preventiveadjective

   Etymology: from prevent.

   1. Tending to hinder.

   Wars preventive upon just fears are true defensives, as well as upon actual invasions. Francis Bacon.

   2. Preservative; hindering ill. It has of before the thing prevented.

   Physick is curative or preventive of diseases; preventive is that which, by purging noxious humours, preventeth sickness. Brown.

   Procuring a due degree of sweat and perspiration, is the best preventive of the gout. Arbuthnot.

2. Preventivenoun

   A preservative; that which prevents; an antidote.

   Etymology: from prevent.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. preventive

   Preventive refers to something that is designed to stop something undesirable, such as illness, disease, or a particular course of action, from happening. This could involve measures or actions taken in advance to keep a negative event from occurring or to reduce its impact. Preventive can be applied to various contexts, including, but not limited to, medicine, law enforcement, and maintenance.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Preventiveadjective

   going before; preceding

2. Preventiveadjective

   tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease

3. Preventivenoun

   that which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic

4. Etymology: [Cf. F. prventif.]

How to pronounce préventive?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Karen

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of préventive in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of préventive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of préventive in a Sentence

1. Archana Radhakrishnan:

   We are continually understanding more about breast cancer screening -- about who should get them, the different age groups of women who really benefit from it and how frequently women need to have mammograms, the guidelines are continuing to evolve, and there is more similarity now between the American Cancer Society and US Preventive Services Task Force guidelines.

2. Brian Vecci:

   What’s clear to me -- and this is true of pretty much every big data breach -- the preventive controls were broken, or the detective controls were broken, meaning, either too many people had access to the information, or the people that had access weren’t being recorded and analyzed. Or both.

3. Ezekiel Togba:

   I am not worrying over the Ebola virus because I follow the necessary preventive measures and I think I am safe.

4. Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova:

   We are extremely cautious, our specialists have come up with excellent methodological protocols for immediate diagnosis of Zika, and also preventive measures.

5. Garima Sharma:

   Making sure that these women actually are appropriately followed after their delivery and that there is a warm handoff between [obstetrics] and [maternal-fetal medicine] to their primary care doctors or preventive cardiologists who can then talk about optimizing cardiovascular risks and reduction of these risk factors post-pregnancy in the postpartum time frame is crucial.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=préventive
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Preventive
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=préventive
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/préventive