Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. tending to discourage (especially of prices);
- Example: "the price was prohibitive"
[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]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

