Preventive

What do we mean by preventive?

Intended or used to prevent or hinder; acting as an obstacle. adjective

Carried out to deter expected aggression by hostile forces. adjective

Preventing or slowing the course of an illness or disease; prophylactic. adjective

Something that prevents; an obstacle. noun

Something that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease. noun

Serving to prevent or hinder; guarding against or warding off something, as disease, injustice, loss, etc.

That which goes before; an anticipation. noun

That which prevents; that which constitutes an effectual check or insurmountable obstacle. noun

Specifically, something taken, used, or done beforehand to ward off disease. noun

Also preventative. noun

Going before; preceding. adjective

Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of. adjective

The duty performed by the armed police in guarding the coast against smuggling. adjective

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

Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to. adjective

Carried out to deter military aggression. adjective

Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic. adjective

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

A thing that slows the development of an illness. noun

A contraceptive, especially a condom. noun

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

A thing that slows the development of an illness.

A contraceptive, especially a condom.

Prevent; to stop something from happening Urban Dictionary

Has the same meaning as preventable, but used only when too stupid to know the proper suffix Urban Dictionary

A ficticious course in how to counter rape defense . Offered to rapists who keep getting beat by their selected victims . Urban Dictionary

A synonym of contraception. Urban Dictionary

Urinating ahead of time while your bladder is roughly 50% full or less to prevent inconvenience of having to do so at a later time with greater need. Urban Dictionary

Used mostly in YouTube Poops where a video may only be a few seconds long. Cut-off prevention is a way of adding a few seconds to a video in order to prevent the YouTube player from breaking and not playing a video in its entirety. Usually placed at the end of a video, cut-off prevention is a way of ensuring that the vie Urban Dictionary

VERB. Masturbating so as to prevent wet dreams and/or untimely hard ons. Urban Dictionary

A chain of events that prevents you from accomplishing anything important. Urban Dictionary

Nick Jonas: You know when you’re going to school and you’re carrying you backpack and your back starts to hurt? Just flip it around. I should invent that Kevin Jonas: THE PREGNANCY PREVENTER. Urban Dictionary

To leave behind friends/teammates in their moment of need in order to save yourself Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to preventive:
preventive, presentive, preventivo, preventative, prevention, retentive, preventing, preceptive, preventible, resentive, pretensive, revertive, preventives, prehensive.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word preventive:
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Words that rhyme with preventive:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe preventive:
best, only, sure, effective, good, great, effectual, certain, excellent, surest, powerful, infallible, important, perfect, absolute, efficient, valuable, possible, greatest, useful, better, adequate, chief, complete, sufficient, true, simple, partial, safe, reliable, efficacious, positive, obvious, sovereign, satisfactory, grand, temporary, promising, potent, wonderful, wholesome, universal, ideal, sole, aids, invariable, strongest, ultimate, prophylactic, routine, surer, suitable, prime, stern, admirable, established, stronger, asthma, invaluable, finest, splendid, monthly, insect, trifling.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective preventive:
measures, medicine, maintenance, care, services, measure, action, detention, war, treatment, program, work, interventions, programs, strategies, intervention, therapy, diplomacy, actions, approach, effect, dentistry, efforts, activities, methods, psychiatry, check, aspects, steps, strategy, health, service, procedures, checks, practices, effects, behavior, approaches, education, means, techniques, behaviors, inoculation, control, role, programmes, management, purposes, medication, treatments, policies, agents, agent, patrol, programme, aspect, wars, censorship, inoculations, attack, hygiene, controls, remedy, strike, vaccination, legislation, medications, counseling, vaccine, schedule, deployment, procedure, cardiology, tasks, relief, therapies, arrest, conservation, police, visits.

Words that sound like preventive:
preventive, preventing, prevented, privative, prevent, prevents, presentive, proventus, presenting, preventative, preventer, privity, provent, provenza, proventil, provant, provocative, printing, preemptive, provender, privette, pre-emptive, pre emptive.