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preventive

4 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. 1) preventive (noun)
  2. 2) preventive (adjective)
  3. preventive medicine (noun)
  4. pellagra-preventive factor (noun)

1pre·ven·tive

noun \-ˈvent-iv\

Definition of PREVENTIVE

: something (as a drug) used to prevent disease

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