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prohibitive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective prohibitive has 1 sense
- prohibitive(s = adj.all) prohibitory - tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was prohibitive"
CIDE DICTIONARY
prohibitive, a. [Cf. F. prohibitif.].
That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
prohibitive, adj.
1 prohibiting.
2 (of prices, taxes, etc.) so high as to prevent purchase, use, abuse, etc. (published at a prohibitive price).
1 prohibiting.
2 (of prices, taxes, etc.) so high as to prevent purchase, use, abuse, etc. (published at a prohibitive price).
Derivative
prohibitively adv. prohibitiveness n. prohibitory adj.
Etymology
F prohibitif -ive or L prohibitivus (as PROHIBIT)
THESAURUS
prohibitive
abusive, criminal, cutthroat, dear, deterrent, deterring, discouraging, ethnocentric, exacting, exceptional, excessive, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, forbidding, forestalling, gouging, grossly overpriced, high, immoderate, inadmissible, inflationary, inhibitive, inhibitory, inordinate, insular, insupportable, interdictive, interdictory, narrow, out of bounds, out of sight, outlandish, outrageous, overpriced, parochial, preclusive, preposterous, prescriptive, preventative, preventive, prohibiting, prohibitory, prophylactic, proscriptive, repressive, restraining, restrictive, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, separative, skyrocketing, snobbish, spiraling, suppressive, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unwarranted, usurious, xenophobicROGET THESAURUS
prohibitive
Prohibition
N prohibition, inhibition, veto, disallowance, interdict, interdiction, injunction, estoppel, embargo, ban, taboo, proscription, index expurgatorius, restriction, hindrance, forbidden fruit, Maine law, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, restrictive, exclusive, forbidding, prohibited, not permitted, unlicensed, contraband, impermissible, under the ban of, illegal, unauthorized, not to be thought of, uncountenanced, unthinkable, beyond the pale, on no account, Int, forbid it heaven!, hands off!, keep off!, hold!, stop!, desist!, cease and desist!, avast!, that will never do, don't you dare, forget it, don't even think about doing it, go ahead, make my day.
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