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[syn: prohibitive, prohibitory]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Prohibitive \Pro*hib"it*ive\, a. [Cf. F. prohibitif.]
That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is
prohibitive.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
prohibitive
adj 1: tending to discourage (especially of prices); "the price
was prohibitive" [syn: prohibitive, prohibitory]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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