preventiveとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

prevent +‎ -ive

発音

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈvɛntɪv/

形容詞

preventive (comparative more preventive, superlative most preventive)

1. Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
   • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, page 146:

     ...and I sometimes think whether, like the ancient king, it would not be prudent to make an offering to destiny, and throw my set of emeralds into the lake." Emily could not but deprecate the emeralds being destined to any such preventive service;...

2. Carried out to deter military aggression.
3. Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:

     Physick is either curative or preventive.

4. (obsolete) Going before; preceding.
   • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe

     Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.

名詞

preventive (複数形 preventives)

1. (dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
   • 1856, Henry William Herbert, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen:

     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 […]

2. (nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
3. A contraceptive, especially a condom.

使用する際の注意点

• Although not a rule, many speakers prefer to use preventive in adjective senses and preventative in noun senses.^[1]