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preventive

adj
/pɹɪˈvɛntɪv/

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin praeventīvus. Equivalent to prevent + -ive.

  1. derived from praeventīvus

Definitions

  1. Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.

  2. Carried out to deter military aggression.

  3. Slowing the development of an illness

    Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.

    • Physick is either curative or preventive.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Going before

      Going before; preceding.

      • Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.

    2. A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.

      • Dogs should be warmly but airily housed; heartily, but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oatmeal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small quantity of salt, which is a preventive against worms […]

    3. A thing that slows the development of an illness.

      • Eaten with sugar yaourt is very palatable and refreshing in warm weather and is said to be a preventive of fever.

    4. A contraceptive, especially a condom.

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Derived

angiopreventive, chemopreventive, immunopreventive, nonpreventive, pathopreventive, preventive healthcare, preventively, preventive medicine, preventiveness, preventive service, preventive war, preventivist, renopreventive, unpreventive

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at preventive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at preventive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at preventive

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