precautional

1. 1.

   taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure

   “gave precautionary advice”

   “I would take precautionary steps to keep him away”

   Synonymsprecautionary

   Similarpreventive

Questions about precautional

What does precautional mean?

precautional means "taken in advance to protect against possible danger or failure".

How many syllables are in precautional?

precautional has 5 syllables: pre-ca-u-tio-nal. The stress falls on "tio".

What is another word for precautional?

Close synonyms include precautionary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is precautional a common word?

precautional is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.