English Dictionary

preventive

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹɪˈvɛntɪv/

名詞

古風 非標準

(dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to. / (nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness. / A contraceptive, especially a condom.

日本語の意味

（時代遅れの意味）妨げる、阻止する作用を持つもの / （非標準の意味）病気の進行を遅らせるもの / 避妊具、特にコンドーム

The old hedgerow was a preventive against trespassers.

その古い生け垣は、侵入者に対する抑止力となった。

意味（1）

(dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.

Dogs should be warmly but airily housed; heartily, but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oatmeal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small quantity of salt, which is a preventive against worms […]

意味（2）

(nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.

意味（3）

A contraceptive, especially a condom.

preventives （ plural ）