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| Shopping | The largest selection of PREVENTIVE products: USA, UK, Canada, Deutschland, France. |
| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| ADJECTIVE | 1 | preventive, preventative, prophylactic | Preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease |
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| 2 | preventive, preventative | Tending to prevent or hinder | |
| 3 | preventive, cautionary, prophylactic | Tending to ward off | |
| NOUN | 1 | preventive, preventative, prophylactic | Remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease |
| 2 | preventive, hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference | Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | |
| 3 | preventive, contraceptive, preventative, contraceptive device, prophylactic device, birth control device | An agent or device intended to prevent conception |
| Sounds | prihveh'nihv; prihveh'ntihv; priyveh'nihv; priyveh'ntihv |
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| Rhymes | abortive, abrasive, abusive, and 298 more rhymes in ihv... |
| Meaning | Preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease. |
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| Examples | "preventive medicine" |
| Synonyms | preventative, prophylactic |
| Similar to | healthful |
| Meaning | Tending to prevent or hinder. |
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| Synonyms | preventative |
| Contrary | permissive |
| Similar | blockading; clogging, hindering, impeding, obstructive; deterrent; frustrating, frustrative, thwarting; precautionary, precautional; preclusive, obviating; preemptive, pre-emptive; prohibitive, prohibitory |
| See also | protective |
| Verbs | prevent; prevent |
| Meaning | Tending to ward off. |
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| Synonyms | cautionary, prophylactic |
| Similar to | protective |
| Meaning | Remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease. |
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| Synonyms | preventative, prophylactic |
| Broader | remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic |
| Meaning | Any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome. |
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| Synonyms | hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference |
| Broader | obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta |
| Narrower | clog; speed bump |
| Meaning | An agent or device intended to prevent conception. |
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| Synonyms | contraceptive, preventative, contraceptive device, prophylactic device, birth control device |
| Broader | device |
| Narrower | cervical cap; coil; condom, rubber, safety, safe, prophylactic; diaphragm, pessary, contraceptive diaphragm; intrauterine device, IUD; morning-after pill; pill, birth control pill, contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive pill, oral contraceptive, anovulatory drug, anovulant; spermicide, spermatocide |
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