1. protective - Noun
2. protective - Adjective
3. protective - Adjective Satellite
Affording protection; sheltering; defensive.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. Frank Herbert
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. Yehudi Menuhin
Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress. Peter Senge
Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return. Suzanne Collins
My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and... placing bets... Emo Philips
The bocor gives you a protective charm, but he doesn't tell you to sleep in the middle of the highway. Haitian Proverb