preventative
Meaning of preventative
adjective
- designed to keep something undesirable such as illness or harm from occurring; preventive.
a number of preventative measures are required
preventative medicine
- a medicine or other treatment designed to prevent disease or ill health.
there are lots of proposed jet lag remedies and preventatives
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Hyphenation of preventative
pre-ven-ta-tive
- It consists of 4 syllables and 12 chars.
- preventative is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
preventative synonyms
Meaning preventive:
Meaning hindrance:
hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference
Meaning contraceptive:
Meaning hindering or preventing an action:
Meaning able or intended to deter:
Meaning causing a blockage or obstruction:
Meaning carried out as a precaution; preventive:
Meaning intended to protect someone or something:
Translation of preventative
- Italian: preventivo
- French: préventif
- Spanish: preventivo
- Portuguese: preventivo
Words that rhyme with preventative
Conservative, Native, Perative, Representative, abdicative, aberrative, abirritative, ablative, abnegative, abrogative, accelerative, accommodative, acculturative, accumulative, accusative, acervative, acetylative, aconative, acurative, adaptative, adequative, adjudicative, administrative, admirative, adoptative, adumbrative, adversative, advocative, affiliative, affinitative, affirmative, afformative, affricative, agglomerative, agglutinative, aggravative, aggregative, agitative, albificative, alimentative, allative, alleviative, alliterative, alterative, altercative, alternative, amalgamative, amative, ambulative, ameliorative
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