Preventive Definition

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adjective
Intended or used to prevent or hinder; acting as an obstacle.
Preventive measures.
American Heritage Medicine
Carried out to deter expected aggression by hostile forces.
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Preventing or serving to prevent; esp., preventing disease.
Webster's New World
The definition of preventive is something done to try to prevent an illness or undesirable outcome.
Going to visit the doctor when you are healthy to get a checkup is an example of preventive care.
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noun
Anything that prevents; esp., anything that prevents disease; prophylactic.
Webster's New World
Something that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease.
American Heritage Medicine

A contraceptive, especially a condom.

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Other Word Forms of Preventive

Noun

Singular:
preventive
Plural:
preventives

Preventive Sentence Examples

  • But the efficiency of this preventive stops short at the point of saving human life.

  • We need to determine which preventive measures should be fostered.

  • The use of the copper solutions mentioned above may also be recommended as a preventive.

  • An employer can three areas preventive first corporate executive.

  • In Mozambique I have visited the factory where in a clinic they are successfully testing the first ever anti malaria preventive vaccine.

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Words Starting With

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Words Ending With

EVEIVE

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