"preventive" meaning in English

See preventive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /pɹɪˈvɛntɪv/ Audio: LL-Q7979-AlexGallon-preventive.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-preventive.wav Forms: more preventive [comparative], most preventive [superlative]
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin praeventīvus. Equivalent to prevent + -ive. Etymology templates: {{der|en|NL.|praeventīvus}} New Latin praeventīvus, {{suffix|en|prevent|ive}} prevent + -ive Head templates: {{en-adj}} preventive (comparative more preventive, superlative most preventive)
  1. Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to. Translations (preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to): اِحْتِرَازِيّ (iḥtirāziyy) [masculine] (Arabic), կանխարգելիչ (kanxargeličʻ) (Armenian), предпазен (predpazen) (Bulgarian), preventiu (Catalan), preventivní (Czech), ennaltaehkäisevä (Finnish), estävä (Finnish), préventif [masculine] (French), vorbeugend (German), präventiv (German), vorsorglich (German), toirmeascach (Irish), 抑止力となる (Japanese), forebyggende (Norwegian Bokmål), førebyggjande (Norwegian Nynorsk), preventivo (Spanish), förebyggande (Swedish), pang-apula (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-preventive-en-adj-erPrKnIF Disambiguation of 'preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to': 86 9 1 4
  2. Carried out to deter military aggression. Translations (carried out to deter military aggression): رَدْعِيّ (radʕiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), превантивен (prevantiven) (Bulgarian), preventiu (Catalan), ennaltaehkäisevä (Finnish), präventiv (German)
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  3. Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic. Translations (slowing the development of an illness): وِقَائِيّ (wiqāʔiyy) [masculine] (Arabic), կանխարգելիչ (kanxargeličʻ) (Armenian), профилактичен (profilaktičen) (Bulgarian), غارprofilàctic (Catalan), ennaltaehkäisevä (Finnish), préventif (French), vorbeugend (German), präventiv (German), zapobiegawczy (Polish), pang-apula (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-preventive-en-adj-UBQA4k8e Disambiguation of 'slowing the development of an illness': 1 2 95 1
  4. (obsolete) Going before; preceding. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-preventive-en-adj-1QsNDK9Y
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: preventative Derived forms: preventive healthcare, preventive medicine, preventive service, preventive war

Noun

IPA: /pɹɪˈvɛntɪv/ Audio: LL-Q7979-AlexGallon-preventive.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-preventive.wav Forms: preventives [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin praeventīvus. Equivalent to prevent + -ive. Etymology templates: {{der|en|NL.|praeventīvus}} New Latin praeventīvus, {{suffix|en|prevent|ive}} prevent + -ive Head templates: {{en-noun}} preventive (plural preventives)
  1. (dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-preventive-en-noun-8hKMq57g
  2. (dated) A thing that slows the development of an illness. Tags: dated
    Sense id: en-preventive-en-noun-9WjjYEPz
  3. A contraceptive, especially a condom.
    Sense id: en-preventive-en-noun-ASgGcR5g
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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