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. That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that whichintercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; aprophylactic.
10. 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