Preventative vs Presentable - What's the difference?
preventative | presentable |
*1920, Lillien Jane Martin, Mental hygiene: two years' experience of a clinical psychologist , Warwick &York (1920), p. 78,
*:"That part of mental hygiene which has a prophylactic character falls into two classes, group preventative mental hygiene […]"
*1968, G. Anthony Wedge, N. A. P.: New American Party , Geddes Press Printers (1968), p. 155,
*:"Preventative defense comes in two flavors […]"
*2006, Robert Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, Repairing & Upgrading Your PC , O'Reilly (2006), p. 70,
*:"The goals of preventative maintenance are to reduce the likelihood of hardware failures, […]"
preventive]
In good enough shape that someone or something can be shown to other people, tidy, attractive
:* Before we go out, let me just go to the washroom and make myself presentable .
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
As adjectives the difference between preventative and presentable
is that preventative is while presentable is presentable (able to be presented).As a noun preventative
is .preventative
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(en adjective)Usage notes
*Preventative'' is in all senses synonymous with ''preventive''. Many speakers prefer to use ''preventative'' in noun senses and ''preventive in adjective senses.[http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.htmlpresentable
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(en adjective)- Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints. When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies.