Usually means: Shielding from harm or danger.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word protective:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. protective: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. protective: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. protective: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. protective: Collins English Dictionary
  5. protective: Vocabulary.com
  6. Protective, protective: Wordnik
  7. protective: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. protective: Wiktionary
  9. protective: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. protective: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. protective: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. protective: Dictionary.com
  13. protective: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Protective: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. protective: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. protective: Rhymezone
  17. Protective: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. protective: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. protective: Free Dictionary
  20. protective: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. protective: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. protective: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. protective: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. protective: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Protective: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See protect as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Serving or intended to protect.
adjective:  Wishing to protect; defensive of somebody or something.
noun:  (British) Something that protects.
noun:  A condom.

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