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Est. 1828
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'preventive'
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3 syllables

  • agentive
  • attentive
  • incentive
  • inventive
  • retentive
  • adventive
  • cotentive
  • detentive
  • dissentive
  • ditentive
  • intentive
  • pendentive
  • portentive

4 syllables

  • disincentive
  • inattentive
  • irretentive
  • unattentive
  • uninventive
  • unretentive

5 syllables

  • chemopreventive
  • anal retentive
  • anal-retentive
  • counter-incentive
  • counterincentive
  • overattentive

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Adjectives for preventive:

  • intervention
  • work
  • approach
  • programmes
  • approaches
  • actions
  • remedy
  • attack
  • procedures
  • measure
  • checks
  • practices
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People also search for preventive:

  • mitigative
  • prenatal
  • maternal
  • drugless
  • psychosocial
  • ophthalmologic
  • protective
  • motivator
  • effective
  • curative
  • ineffective
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