Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
Going before; preceding.
- 2adjective
Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease.
- 3noun
That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.
- 4noun
an agent or device intended to prevent conception
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- 5noun
any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- 6noun
remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
"the doctor recommended several preventatives"
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- 7adjective
preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
"preventive medicine"
"vaccines are prophylactic"
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- 8adjective
tending to prevent or hinder
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