Thesaurus: preventive

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1. a. Going before; preceding.
2. a. Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease.
3. n. That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.
4. adj. preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
5. adj. tending to prevent or hinder
6. n. remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
7. n. any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
8. n. an agent or device intended to prevent conception
9. 1. Going before; preceding. [Obs.] Any previous counsel or preventive understanding. Cudworth. 2. Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease. Physic is either curative or preventive. Sir T. Browne. Preventive service, the duty performed by the armed police in guarding the coast against smuggling. [Eng] That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.
10. That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that whichintercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; aprophylactic.
11. j:100 n. remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease s. preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease a. tending to prevent or hinder