Preventive is valid Scrabble Word

Is preventive a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is preventive valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
22 points in WWF

Definitions for PREVENTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:

something that prevents
a medicine or other treatment designed to prevent disease or ill health
That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic.
remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease
any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
an agent or device intended to prevent conception

ADJECTIVE:

serving to prevent, also PREVENTATIVE
designed to keep something undesirable such as illness or harm from occurring
Going before; preceding.
Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease.

preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
tending to prevent or hinder
serving to prevent

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

something that prevents; something used to prevent disease

Words related to PREVENTIVE

preventively23 preventiveness22 preventives19

Words that contain PREVENTIVE

preventives19 preventively23 preventiveness22 chemopreventive30 preventivenesse23 preventivenesses24

How to use PREVENTIVE in a sentence

The supreme achievement of the medicine of the Nineteenth Century undoubtedly has been the development of its preventive feature.
But surely it should rather be called a preventive of English licentiousness.
The defeat of the Romans at Carrhae by the Parthians was followed by a panic, against the effects of which not even the discipline of the legions was a preventive.
Clearly then it is her personal, as well as her maternal and national, duty to apply preventive measures.
He replied civilly, that the members of the Preventive Service were not allowed to hold any conversation with strangers, and requested to be excused from saying any more.
He had vague ideas that so long as the goods were on dry land the preventive men could not touch them, but of that he was not perfectly certain.
In order to do this, however, it is essential that the family is limited to one, two, or three, as the case may be, and before it is too late, preventive measures are resorted to.
The outlay will not be wasted, for lime is not merely a preventive, it has often an almost magical influence on the fertility of land.
A regular use of lime and soot will be found an effectual preventive.
Autumn sowing is considered a good preventive by many growers, as the disease is frequently fatal to spring seedlings.

As a preventive, let the camera be exposed to the sun or fire for a few minutes in the morning.
Millions of money are squandered annually to curb crime, when a few thousand dollars, properly applied, would prove to be a more humane, a more profitable preventive.
The treatment and preventive measures are alike in many respects.
Preventive measures, as indicated for hog cholera, are all important.
But the sure preventive of its pernicious effect, is, to banish copper utensils from the kitchen altogether.
As preventive against the intermittent fevers on the lowlands and rivers, nothing is better than Dr.
For a time gum-camphor was thought to be a preventive against the contagion.
A bit of blood-stained cloth is tied about the neck of a child as a preventive against either measles or smallpox, and tiger flesh is eaten for the same purpose.
The Government, therefore, refrained from preventive measures, and confined its efforts to discouraging the emigration and to reconcile the malcontents.
Under this pressure, we must expect to see preventive methods widely accepted as the least of unavoidable evils.
And I have no doubt that this law would act as a preventive in the case before us.

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