Prohibitive Definition

prō-hĭbĭ-tĭv
adjective
Prohibiting or tending to prohibit something.
Webster's New World
Such as to prevent purchase, use, etc.
Cost-prohibitive.
Webster's New World
So likely to win as to discourage competition.
The prohibitive favorite to win the nomination.
American Heritage

Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.

I'd like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.
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noun

(linguistics) Negative imperative.

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Other Word Forms of Prohibitive

Noun

Singular:
prohibitive
Plural:
prohibitives

Origin of Prohibitive

Prohibitive Sentence Examples

  • In 1822 the prohibitive point was lowered to 70s.

  • For greater depths the cost was usually prohibitive.

  • However, the cost of these devices is often prohibitive to patients.

  • Steaming and boiling are sometimes resorted to as artificial means of seasoning, but not to any great extent, as the timber deteriorates under such treatment, and the cost of the process is in many cases prohibitive.

  • When lead or zinc is not present in notable quantity, the loss of the precious metals by volatilization is slight, but more than 5% of these metals in the matte is prohibitive.

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