Preventive and Selective

Preventive adjective - Concerned with or serving to keep something from happening.

Selective and preventive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Selective" instead an adjective "Preventive".

Nearby Words: prevent, prevented, prevention, preventing, preventable

Selective adjective - Tending to select carefully.

Preventive and selective are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Preventive" instead an adjective "Selective".

Nearby Words: select, selection, selected, selecting, selector