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preventive Definition

• (a) tending to prevent or hinder
• (n) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease; "the doctor recommended several preventatives"
• (n) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
• (n) an agent or device intended to prevent conception
• (s) preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease; "preventive medicine"; "vaccines are prophylactic"; "a prophylactic drug"
• (s) tending to ward off; "the swastika...a very ancient prophylactic symbol occurring among all peoples"- Victor Schultze

preventive Synonyms

• birth control device
• cautionary
• contraceptive
• contraceptive device
• encumbrance
• hindrance
• hitch
• incumbrance
• interference
• preventative
• preventive
• prophylactic
• prophylactic device