prohibitive.
Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
Meaning & usage
Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning.
Requiring an unreasonable or impractical effort.
Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
I'd like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.
Being the presumptive or likely winner of a contest.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English prohibitif, prohibityve, from Medieval Latin prohibitīvus, from prohibit-, past-participle stem of Latin prohibēre. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ive.
A negative imperative.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English prohibitif, prohibityve, from Medieval Latin prohibitīvus, from prohibit-, past-participle stem of Latin prohibēre. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ive.
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