Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Synonyymit
- (lääketiede)prophylactic
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
- Carried out to deter military aggression.
- Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
- (obsolete) Going before; preceding.
Substantiivi
- (dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
- (dated) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
- A contraceptive, especially a condom.
Esimerkit
- Physic is either curative or preventive.
- Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.
- 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 [...]
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | preventives |
| Komparatiivi | more preventive |
| Superlatiivi | most preventive |