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[ US /pɹiˈvɛnɪv, pɹiˈvɛntɪv, pɹɪˈvɛnɪv, pɹɪˈvɛntɪv/ ]
[ UK /pɹɪvˈɛntɪv/ ]
NOUN
  1. remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
    the doctor recommended several preventatives
  2. any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
  3. an agent or device intended to prevent conception
ADJECTIVE
  1. preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
    a prophylactic drug
    vaccines are prophylactic
    preventive medicine
  2. tending to prevent or hinder

How To Use preventive In A Sentence

  • The effect of preventive measures on the incidence of ankle sprains.
  • In this sense cognitive therapy might sometimes serve a preventive function.
  • With a little planning and preventive measures, you can avoid the common sun and surf damage of faded colour, fragile, brittle or dry hair and yucky split ends.
  • Malar J 6: 88. van Eijk AM, Ayisi JG, ter Kuile FO, Otieno JA, Misore AO, et al. (2004) Effectiveness of intermittent preventive treatment with sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine for control of malaria in pregnancy in western Kenya: a hospital-based study. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The reason to do it now is preventive to try and avoid a toothless old age for her.
  • Objective To study the preventive effect of honey milk tea on stress gastric ulcer, and to confirm the value of honey milk tea used as an alimentotherapy.
  • The great plague is club or anbury, for which there is no direct remedy or preventive known. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
  • Your passbook is checked at the reception desk every time you come; if you're behind schedule for a shot, you go to the Preventive Medicine door and the nurse gives it to you, then and there. A Response To The Documentary Sicko
  • Having said this, however, we have noted earlier the difficulties inherent in trying to mount preventive strategies.
  • The product works as either a preventive or curative control for fire ants, mole crickets, sod webworms, cutworms, armyworms and chinch bugs.
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