preventive Syllabification: (pre·ven·tive)Pronunciation: /priˈventiv/Translate preventive | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of preventive adjective designed to keep something undesirable such as illness, harm, or accidents from occurring:preventive medicine noun a medicine or other treatment designed to stop disease or ill health from occurring. Derivatives preventively adverb preventive in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of preventive in the British & World English dictionary
