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   prohibitive

   /prə(ʊ)ˈhɪbɪtɪv/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a law or rule) forbidding or restricting something: "prohibitive legislation" Similar proscriptiveprohibitoryrestrictivesuppressiverepressiverestraininginhibitory
   • ▪ preventing someone from doing something: "books made browser-proof with prohibitive cellophane wrapping"
   • 2. (of a price or charge) so high as to prevent something being done or bought: "the cost of converting existing power stations is likely to be prohibitive" Similar excessively highextortionateexcessiveexorbitantsky-highpreposterousoutrageousscandalousout of the questionbeyond one's meansmore than one can affordunreasonableimpossibleoverinflatedinformal:steepcriminal

   Word Origin late Middle English (in prohibitive (sense 1)): from French prohibitif, -ive or Latin prohibitivus, from prohibit- ‘kept in check’, from the verb prohibere (see prohibit).

   Derivatives

   • 1. prohibitiveness noun

   Scrabble Points: 21

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