preventive

preventive is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Going before; preceding. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 22 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Going before; preceding.
2. adjective. Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease.
3. noun. That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.
4. noun. an agent or device intended to prevent conception

   Synonyms: contraceptive, preventative

5. noun. any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

   Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative

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

   "the doctor recommended several preventatives"

   Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic

7. adjective. preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease

   "preventive medicine"

   "vaccines are prophylactic"

   Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic

8. adjective. tending to prevent or hinder

   Synonyms: preventative

Synonyms

contraceptive, preventative, encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, prophylactic

Common word forms

preventives, preventively, preventiveness

Words from these letters

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