Preventive vs Unacceptable - What's the difference?
preventive | unacceptable | Related terms |
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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unsatisfactory; not acceptable
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 16
, author=Denis Campbell
, title=Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'
, work=Guardian
(linguistics) not conforming to accepted usage
Preventive is a related term of unacceptable.
As adjectives the difference between preventive and unacceptable
is that preventive is while unacceptable is unsatisfactory; not acceptable.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
Alternative forms
* preventativeUsage notes
* Many speakers prefer to use preventive'' in adjective senses and ''preventative in noun senses.[http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.htmlunacceptable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage="This shocking report proves once again that we urgently need a radical shake-up of hospital care," said Jeremy Hughes, chief executive of the Alzheimer's Society. "Given that people with dementia occupy a quarter of hospital beds and that many leave in worse health than when they were admitted, it is unacceptable that training in dementia care is not the norm."}}