Prohibitive

3 definitions found

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

  Prohibitive \Pro*hib"it*ive\, a. [Cf. F. prohibitif.]
     That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is
     prohibitive.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  prohibitive
       adj : tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price was
             prohibitive" [syn: {prohibitory}]

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

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "prohibitive":
     abusive, criminal, cutthroat, dear, deterrent, deterring,
     discouraging, ethnocentric, exacting, exceptional, excessive,
     excluding, exclusive, exclusory, exorbitant, extortionate,
     extravagant, fancy, forbidding, forestalling, gouging,
     grossly overpriced, high, immoderate, inadmissible, inflationary,
     inhibitive, inhibitory, inordinate, insular, insupportable,
     interdictive, interdictory, narrow, out of bounds, out of sight,
     outlandish, outrageous, overpriced, parochial, preclusive,
     preposterous, prescriptive, preventative, preventive, prohibiting,
     prohibitory, prophylactic, proscriptive, repressive, restraining,
     restrictive, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, separative,
     skyrocketing, snobbish, spiraling, suppressive, unconscionable,
     undue, unreasonable, unwarranted, usurious, xenophobic