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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

예방적인

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yebangjeog-in

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Preventative/prɪˈvɛn.tə.tɪv/
adjectivenounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"정기 검진은 중요한 예방 조치입니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Designed to keep something undesirable such as illness, harm, or accidents from occurring.

    "Regular exercise and a healthy diet are important preventative measures against heart disease."
As noun
  1. 1

    A medicine, measure, or treatment designed to stop something from happening.

    "Vaccination serves as a vital preventative for many infectious diseases."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the late Latin verb praevenire (meaning 'to come before' or 'anticipate'), combining prae- ('before') and venire ('to come'). The adjective form developed in English via the noun 'prevent' and the suffix '-ative', becoming widely accepted alongside 'preventive' since the 18th century.

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