prohibitive

Meaning of prohibitive

noun

Negative imperative

adjective
  1. Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
    Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning.
  2. Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
    I'd like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.
  3. (Of a contender in a competition): presumptive winner, likely winner.

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Hyphenation of prohibitive

pro-hib-i-tive

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • prohibitive is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

prohibitive synonyms

Meaning prohibitory:

prohibitory

Words that rhyme with prohibitive

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