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prohibitionistic

prohibitionistic adjective: of or pertaining to a prohibition.

Adjective

prohibitionistic (comparative more prohibitionistic, superlative most prohibitionistic)

  1. Of or pertaining to a prohibition.
    • But by then I’d settled into a pattern of weird, wrecked eating in which I maintained a bizarre prohibitionistic list of foods I was never to touch.2009 October 11, Zz Packer, “No Polenta, No Cry”, in New York Times

Forms of prohibitionistic

comparativemore prohibitionistic
superlativemost prohibitionistic

Origin of prohibitionistic

From prohibition + -istic.

Questions about prohibitionistic

What does prohibitionistic mean?
Prohibitionistic means of or pertaining to a prohibition.
What part of speech is prohibitionistic?
Prohibitionistic is an adjective.

Words near prohibitionistic in the dictionary

  1. prohibition
  2. prohibitional
  3. prohibitionary
  4. prohibitionism
  5. prohibitionist
  6. prohibitionistic
  7. prohibitionists
  8. prohibitions
  9. prohibitive
  10. prohibitive mood
  11. prohibitively

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