prohibitive

Meaning

Adj

1. Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
2. Requiring an unreasonable or impractical effort.
3. Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
4. (US) Being the presumptive or likely winner of a contest.

Noun

A negative imperative.

Synonyms

prohibitory

don’t

forbidding

restrictive

exorbitant

interdictory

inhibitory

unaffordable

do not

limiting

mustn’t

no

🙅

preventing

preventive

prohibiting

restraining

steep

unconscionable

undue

unjustifiable

unjustified

unreasonable

unwarrantable

unwarranted

impedimental

confining

unpayable

contraband

dissuading

excessive

immoderate

indefensible

inhibitive

insupportable

intemperate

interdictive

Translations

prohibitif

proibitivo

prohibitivo

proibitivo

unerschwinglich

yasaklayıcı

prohibitori

prohibitiu

impeditivo

proibitiva

ausschließend

Prohibitiv

Verbots…

απαγορευτικός

prohibitiv

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹəˈhɪbɪtɪv/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: prohibitif

In summary

From Middle English prohibitif, prohibityve, from Medieval Latin prohibitīvus, from prohibit-, past-participle stem of Latin prohibēre. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ive.