Word: Preventive
How to pronounce: prɪˈventɪv
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Designed to keep something undesirable such as illness, harm, or accidents from occurring.
Example sentences: "Preventive medicine"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A medicine or other treatment designed to stop disease or ill health from occurring.
Example sentences: "Quinine was used as a malaria preventive"
Synonyms:
preventative
prophylactically
preventive measure
prophylaxis
preventive maintenance
prophylactic
preventive care
preventive treatment
precautionary
proactive
caution
Derivations:
prevention
preventively
preventing
prevent
preventable
prevented
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Preventive in Other Languages...
Spanish: Preventivo
German: Vorbeugende
French: Préventif
Italian: Preventivo
Turkish: önleyici
