preventive

Meanings

• 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
• preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease;
• "preventive medicine"
• tending to prevent or hinder

Synonyms

• preventative
• prophylactic
• hindrance
• hinderance
• hitch
• encumbrance
• incumbrance
• interference
• contraceptive
• contraceptive device
• prophylactic device
• birth control device

Scrabble Score: 18

preventive is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

preventive is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

preventive is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 22

preventive is a valid Words With Friends word

Angrams of preventive