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prohibitive

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Adjective
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pro=hib=i=tive

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective prohibitive has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

prohibitivea. [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).

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, xenophobic

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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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