Preclusive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Preclusive \Pre*clu"sive\, a.
     Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering.
     -- {Pre*clu"sive*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  preclusive
       adj : made impossible [syn: {obviating(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "preclusive":
     deterrent, deterring, discouraging, ethnocentric, exceptional,
     excluding, exclusive, exclusory, forbidding, forestalling,
     inadmissible, inhibitive, inhibitory, insular, interdictive,
     interdictory, narrow, parochial, prescriptive, preventative,
     preventive, prohibiting, prohibitive, prohibitory, prophylactic,
     proscriptive, repressive, restrictive, seclusive, segregative,
     select, selective, separative, snobbish, suppressive, xenophobic