Antonyms for preventive
prɪˈvɛn tɪv; -tə tɪvpre·ven·tive

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1. preventive, preventative, prophylacticnoun

   remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease

   "the doctor recommended several preventatives"

   Antonyms:
   bailable, unhealthful, permissive

   Synonyms:
   condom, contraceptive device, interference, safe, hitch, safety, birth control device, rubber, prophylactic device, preventative, contraceptive, incumbrance, encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, prophylactic

2. hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interferencenoun

   any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome

   Antonyms:
   permissive, unhealthful, bailable

   Synonyms:
   hitch, birth control device, enlistment, stoppage, hindrance, prophylactic device, halt, interference, handicap, arrest, impediment, duty tour, disturbance, load, rub, tour of duty, baulk, term of enlistment, hobble, tour, hinderance, intervention, stop, prophylactic, onus, limp, stay, hang-up, deterrent, encumbrance, contraceptive device, balk, contraceptive, incumbrance, noise, preventative, snag, burden, check

3. contraceptive, preventive, preventative, contraceptive device, prophylactic device, birth control deviceadjective

   an agent or device intended to prevent conception

   Antonyms:
   permissive, unhealthful, bailable

   Synonyms:
   prophylactic, hitch, prophylactic device, contraceptive, birth control device, interference, hinderance, preventative, hindrance, incumbrance, encumbrance, contraceptive device

4. preventive, preventative, prophylacticadjective

   preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease

   "preventive medicine"; "vaccines are prophylactic"; "a prophylactic drug"

   Antonyms:
   bailable, permissive, unhealthful

   Synonyms:
   cautionary, antifertility, contraceptive, prophylactic, preventative

5. preventive, preventativeadjective

   tending to prevent or hinder

   Antonyms:
   unhealthful, bailable, permissive

   Synonyms:
   prophylactic, preventative

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1. preventiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   deterrent, prophylactic, obviating

2. preventivenoun

   Synonyms:
   prophylactic

How to use preventive in a sentence?

1. Jeff Paine:

   This would give the regime sweeping powers to monitor online traffic in the name of an emergency or as a preventive measure, potentially compromising private and corporate data.

2. Tyron Edwards:

   Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

3. Roger Marshall:

   The Medicaid population, which is [on] a free credit card, as a group, do probably the least preventive medicine and taking care of themselves and eating healthy and exercising. And I’m not judging, I’m just saying socially that’s where they are. So there’s a group of people that even with unlimited access to health care are only going to use the emergency room when their arm is chopped off or when their pneumonia is so bad they get brought [into] the ER.

4. Andrea Baccarelli:

   Future studies, especially in heavily polluted areas, are urgently needed to validate our findings and ultimately develop preventive interventions using B vitamins to contain the health effects of air pollution, while emission control and regulation is the backbone of prevention, high exposures are, unfortunately, the rule still in many megacities throughout the world.

5. Ricardo Garcia:

   The final product consumers eat has no antibiotics, this is only something given to sick fish so they don't die. It's not something preventive.

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