preventive
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɹɪˈvɛntɪv/
preventive
- Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
- Carried out to deter military aggression.
- Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
- Physick is either curative or preventive.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
- (obsolete) Going before; preceding.
- 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
- Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.
- 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe
- French: préventif
- German: vorbeugend, präventiv
- Spanish: preventivo
- German: präventiv
- German: vorbeugend, präventiv
preventive (plural preventives)
- (dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
- (nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
- A contraceptive, especially a condom.
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