Corrective vs Preventive - What's the difference?
corrective | preventive | Related terms |
Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct
Qualifying; limiting.
* Holdsworth
Something that corrects or counteracts something, especially an injury or disability
(obsolete) limitation; restriction
Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
Carried out to deter military aggression.
Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) Going before; preceding.
* Cudworth
(dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
* 1856 , Henry William Herbert, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen
(nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
A contraceptive, especially a condom.
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Corrective is a related term of preventive.
As adjectives the difference between corrective and preventive
is that corrective is of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct while preventive is .As a noun corrective
is something that corrects or counteracts something, especially an injury or disability.corrective
English
Adjective
(-)- As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes .
- The Psalmist interposeth this corrective particle.
Noun
(en noun)- alkalies are correctives of acids
- penalties are correctives of immoral conduct
preventive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Physic is either curative or preventive .
- Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.
Noun
(en noun)- 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