prophylactic
Meaning of prophylactic
- A medicine which preserves or defends against disease; a preventive.
- Any device or mechanism intended to prevent harmful consequences.
The securities laws are a prophylactic against stock fraud.
adjective
Serving to prevent or protect against an undesired effect, especially disease.
Information about prophylactic
- The plural form of prophylactic is: prophylactics.
- Languages in which prophylactic is used:
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Hyphenation of prophylactic
pro-phy-lac-tic
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- prophylactic is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
prophylactic synonyms
Meaning contraceptive:
Meaning cautionary:
Meaning preventive:
Meaning condom:
Translation of prophylactic
- German: Gummi, Kondom, Präservativ, Pariser
- Portuguese: preservativo
- French: préservatif, condom, capote
- Italian: condom, preservativo, profilattico
- Spanish: condón, preservativo
Words that rhyme with prophylactic
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