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precautionary

precautionary adjective: of, pertaining to, or serving as a precaution.

Adjective

precautionary (comparative more precautionary, superlative most precautionary)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or serving as a precaution.
    • The port cities were quarantined as a precautionary measure, though no cases of the disease had been found.
    • Fearing attack on the northern ports by the English, he even took precautionary measures by strengthening the defense of Shan-hai-kuan 山海關 and Ch‘in-huang-tao 秦皇島.1941, Huang Yen-yü, “Viceroy Yeh Ming-ch‘ên and the Canton Episode (1856-1861)”, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, volume 6, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard-Yenching Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages...

Noun

precautionary (plural precautionaries)

  1. (obsolete) A precaution.
    • Thou seest, Belford, by the above precautionaries, that I forget nothing.1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […], →OCLC

precautionary meaning in Hindi and Malayalam

precautionary in Hindi

एहतियाती

precautionary in Malayalam

preventative, preventive, safety
മുൻകരുതലായുള്ള, നിവാരകമായ, പ്രതിരോധശക്തിയുള്ള, തടുക്കുന്ന നിവര, നിരോധി, നിരോധിക്കുന്ന

Forms of precautionary

Adjective
comparativemore precautionary
superlativemost precautionary
Noun
pluralprecautionaries

Origin of precautionary

From precaution + -ary.

Words formed from precautionary

Questions about precautionary

What does precautionary mean?
Precautionary means of, pertaining to, or serving as a precaution.
What is precautionary in Hindi?
Precautionary in Hindi is एहतियाती. See Precautionary meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is precautionary?
Precautionary can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near precautionary in the dictionary

  1. precaudal
  2. precaution
  3. precautional
  4. precautionaries
  5. precautionarily
  6. precautionary
  7. precautioned
  8. precautioning
  9. precautions
  10. precautious
  11. precautiously

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Adapted from Wiktionary: precautionary (page history and authors); precautionary (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); precautionary (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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