prohibitive
/pɹəˈhɪbɪtɪv/
prohibitive adjective: tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
Adjective
prohibitive (comparative more prohibitive, superlative most prohibitive)
- 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.
- The economics of rebuilding all the stations covered by the electrification would be prohibitive, but to help bring home to the Glasgow public that their North Clyde suburban service has been transformed, not merely re-equipped with new trains, stations have at least been associated psychologically...1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 714
- Synonyms:
- extortionate
- Being the presumptive or likely winner of a contest.
- “I think there’s no question about that. I think he’s the prohibitive favorite if he gets in,” Dennis Lennox, a Michigan-based Republican political consultant, told Politico.2017 July 23, Olivia Beavers, “GOP consultant:Kid Rock would be prohibitive favorite if he enters Michigan Senate race.”, in The Hill, 2020 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., archived from the original...
- [B]ut the math says Joe is our prohibitive nominee, we need to bring the party together[.]2020, 00:00:20 from the start, in Andrew Yang endorses Joe Biden, and delivers message to Bernie Sanders supporters, CNN, published 2020, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2020
Noun
prohibitive (plural prohibitives)
prohibitive meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
prohibitive in Hindi
- prohibitive, negatory
- निषेधात्मक niṣedhātmak
prohibitive in Urdu
- مانع
prohibitive in Bengali
- প্রতিবন্ধক, আকাশচুম্বী
prohibitive in Malayalam
- നിരോധിക്കുന്ന
More languagesFewer languages
- prohibitive in Kannada
- ವಿಪರೀತ ದುಬಾರಿಯ, ತುಟ್ಟಿಯಾದ, ಕೊಡಲಾಗದಷ್ಟು ಬೆಲೆಯ, ಪ್ರತಿಬಂಧಕ
- prohibitive in Arabic
- نَهْي nahy
Examples of prohibitive in a sentence
- In sections (5.2.7-10.) three special prohibitive moods were identified and described: negative imperative, negative exhortative and monitory.
- Instead, she regularly slanders women and proposes prohibitive and censorial legislation.
- It is your responsibility to play only those games where the vig is not prohibitive.
Synonyms of prohibitive
Forms of prohibitive
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more prohibitive |
| superlative | most prohibitive |
| Noun | |
| plural | prohibitives |
Origin of prohibitive
From Middle English prohibitif, prohibityve, from Medieval Latin prohibitīvus, from prohibit-, past-participle stem of Latin prohibēre. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ive.
Words formed from prohibitive
Questions about prohibitive
- What does prohibitive mean?
- Prohibitive means tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
- What is prohibitive in Hindi?
- Prohibitive in Hindi is निषेधात्मक (niṣedhātmak). See Prohibitive meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is prohibitive?
- Prohibitive can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce prohibitive?
- Prohibitive is pronounced /pɹəˈhɪbɪtɪv/.
Words near prohibitive in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: prohibitive (page history and authors); निषेधात्मक (Hindi) (page history and authors); prohibitive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prohibitive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prohibitive (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prohibitive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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