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We found 34 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word preventive:
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General (27 matching dictionaries)

1. preventive: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. preventive: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. preventive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. preventive: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. preventive: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. preventive: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Preventive, preventive: Wordnik [home, info]
8. preventive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. preventive: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. preventive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. preventive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. preventive: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. preventive: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. preventive: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
15. preventive: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
16. Preventive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
17. preventive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
18. preventive: Rhymezone [home, info]
19. preventive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
20. preventive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
21. preventive: Free Dictionary [home, info]
22. preventive: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
23. preventive: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
24. preventive: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
25. preventive: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

26. preventive: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

27. preventive: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)

28. preventive: Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary [home, info]
29. preventive: online medical dictionary [home, info]
30. preventive: Dictionary of Cancer Terms [home, info]
31. preventive: Medical dictionary [home, info]
32. preventive: Hyperdictionary [home, info]

(Note: See preventives for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (preventive) ▸ noun:  remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease ▸ noun:  an agent or device intended to prevent conception ▸ noun:  any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome ▸ adjective:  tending to prevent or hinder ▸ adjective:  preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease ("Preventive medicine") ▸ adjective:  tending to ward off ▸ Also see preventives ▸ Words similar to preventive ▸ Usage examples for preventive ▸ Popular adjectives describing preventive ▸ Popular nouns described by preventive ▸ Words that often appear near preventive ▸ Rhymes of preventive ▸ Invented words related to preventive