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What is the adjective for preventative?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs prevent and prevene which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

preventive
  1. Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
  2. Carried out to deter military aggression.
  3. Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
  4. (obsolete) Going before; preceding.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “Drivers rediscovered their horns, using them in short toots as a preventive measure to warn the occasional careless pedestrian.”
      “The drug is used as a preventive treatment for episodic and chronic migraine.”
preventional
  1. Tending to prevent; preventative.
  2. Examples:
    1. “We indicate various medicine after the treatment of varixes as a medical preventional remedy.”
      “This year they publicly said that they are going to collaborate with Depaul in programs working with street children and preventional programs.”
      Preventional nutrition is essential in the case of diabetes, obesity and other metabolic disorders.”
preventable
  1. able to be or fit to be prevented
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The good news is that the most common mistakes are easily preventable if you know what to look for.”
      “Ringworm is a highly contagious fungal disease like tinea that is totally preventable and treatable with persistent home care.”
      “The result is the first comprehensive analysis of preventable patient deaths linked to infections within 5,810 hospitals nationally.”
preventative
  1. Alternative form of preventive
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “If a preventative vaccine can lower the rate of viral transmission, this will have a significant effect on mitigating the epidemic.”
      “The code establishes cooperative mechanisms to detect security threats and take preventative measures to protect ships and ports involved in international trade.”
preventible
  1. Capable of being prevented.
prevented
  1. simple past tense and past participle of prevent
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In most cases, it is not possible to link a prevented accident with a specific source of learning, if in fact, it is even possible to identify most situations where an accident has been averted.”
preventing
prevened
prevening
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