Synonyms of preservative

preservative

adjective

as in protective

Related Words

• protective
• constructive
• creative
• nondestructive
• harmless
• innocuous
• formative
• useful
• productive
• healthful
• wholesome
• helpful
• ameliorative
• inoffensive
• healthy
• innocent
• salubrious
• nonlethal
• nonfatal

Dissimilar Words

• destructive
• disastrous
• ruinous
• devastating
• antibiotic
• cataclysmic
• calamitous
• poisonous
• lethal
• vital
• fatal
• biocidal
• devastative
• annihilatory
• deadly
• cataclysmal
• mortal
• virulent
• killer
• murderous
• deathly
• baleful
• fell
• pestilent

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of preservative

Most embalming techniques involve opening the body to insert preservative materials. —Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2025

The back of the device houses everything needed to create the foundation, including the preservative system, emulsions and pigments. —Celia Shatzman, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025

Kennedy has a long history of promoting conspiracies about childhood vaccines, including the theory that the preservative thimerosal—which has been phased out of most modern vaccine formulas—is linked to autism, a claim that’s been thoroughly discredited by medical studies. —Sara Dorn, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025

Kennedy has falsely linked vaccines to numerous health conditions, arguing, for instance, that the mercury-containing vaccine preservative thimerosal causes neurological disorders in children, particularly autism. —Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 1 Dec. 2024