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adj. Adapted or intended to afford protection.

n. Something that protects.

adj. Serving, intended or wishing to protect.

n. Something that protects.

n. A condom.

adj. Affording protection; sheltering; defensive.

Affording protection; sheltering; defensive.

Adapted or intended to afford protection: as, a protective measure; affording protection to commodities of home production: as, a protective tariff; protective taxes.

n. That which protects; something adapted to afford protection.

n. In surgery, carbolized oiled silk applied over wounds for the exclusion of pathogenic bacteria.

adj. intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind

adj. (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful

adj. showing care

"The aim should be to aggressively create what he calls a "protective barrier" against loneliness."

tutelary    evasive    overprotective    contraceptive    protecting    cautionary    tutelar    restrictive    antifertility    prophylactic   

protective person    protective mimicry    protective sheath    american protective association    protective paper    protective character    protective coloring   

sheltering    defensive    protecting    tutelar    guarding    shielding   

affective    anti-infective    collective    connective    convective    corrective    defective    detective    directive    effective   

outer    defensive    new    transparent    normal    solid    flexible