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prohibitory

prohibitory adjective: that serves to prohibit or forbid.

Adjective

prohibitory (comparative more prohibitory, superlative most prohibitory)

  1. That serves to prohibit or forbid

prohibitory meaning in Tamil and Kannada

prohibitory in Tamil

தடையுறுத்துக் கட்டளை, தடுக்கிற, தடை செய்கிற

prohibitory in Kannada

ಪ್ರತಿಬಂಧಕ, ನಿಷೇಧಕ, ತಡೆಗಟ್ಟುವ, ಅಡ್ಡಿ ಮಾಡುವ

Forms of prohibitory

comparativemore prohibitory
superlativemost prohibitory

Origin of prohibitory

From prohibit + -ory.

Words formed from prohibitory

Questions about prohibitory

What does prohibitory mean?
Prohibitory means that serves to prohibit or forbid.
What is prohibitory in Tamil?
Prohibitory in Tamil is தடையுறுத்துக் கட்டளை, தடுக்கிற, தடை செய்கிற. See Prohibitory meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is prohibitory?
Prohibitory is an adjective.

Words near prohibitory in the dictionary

  1. prohibitiveness
  2. prohibitives
  3. prohibitor
  4. prohibitorily
  5. prohibitors
  6. prohibitory
  7. prohibits
  8. prohis
  9. proholiday
  10. prohormonal
  11. prohormone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prohibitory (page history and authors); prohibitory (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prohibitory (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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