preventive

1. a. Going before; preceding. Source: opted

2. a. Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease. Source: opted

3. n. That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic. Source: opted

4. adj. preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease Source: wordnet

5. adj. tending to prevent or hinder Source: wordnet

6. n. remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease Source: wordnet

7. n. any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome Source: wordnet

8. n. an agent or device intended to prevent conception Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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

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 Source: ecdict

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