preventive
Meaning of preventive
noun
- A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
- A thing that slows the development of an illness.
- A contraceptive, especially a condom.
- Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
- Carried out to deter military aggression.
- Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
- Going before; preceding.
Information about preventive
Hyphenation of preventive
pre-ven-tive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- preventive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
preventive synonyms
Meaning preventative:
Meaning cautionary:
Meaning hindrance:
hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference
Meaning contraceptive:
Translation of preventive
- Italian: preventivo
- French: préventif
- Spanish: preventivo
- Portuguese: preventivo
Words that rhyme with preventive
Conservative, Native, Perative, Representative, abdicative, aberrative, abirritative, ablative, abnegative, abrogative, accelerative, accommodative, acculturative, accumulative, accusative, acervative, acetylative, aconative, acurative, adaptative, adequative, adjudicative, administrative, admirative, adoptative, adumbrative, adversative, advocative, affiliative, affinitative, affirmative, afformative, affricative, agglomerative, agglutinative, aggravative, aggregative, agitative, albificative, alimentative, allative, alleviative, alliterative, alterative, altercative, alternative, amalgamative, amative, ambulative, ameliorative
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