## Meanings
1. So high in price or cost that something is impossible to afford.
2. Tending to prevent or forbid something from happening.
3. Very strongly favoured to win.

## Examples
- The cost of renting in the city centre is simply prohibitive.
- The country has strict, prohibitive laws on gun ownership.
- She is the prohibitive favourite to win the election.

## Derived Forms
- cost-prohibitive
- nonprohibitive
- prohibitively
- prohibitiveness
- unprohibitive

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: prohibitif
- Root: prohibitīvus
- Root: prohibeō

## Etymology
From Middle English prohibitif, prohibityve, from Medieval Latin prohibitīvus, from prohibit-, past-participle stem of Latin prohibēre. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ive.

## AI Etymology
Prohibitive is from Middle English prohibitif, prohibityve, from Medieval Latin prohibitīvus, from prohibit-, past-participle stem of Latin prohibēre. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ive. In present-day use, it can mean so high in price or cost that something is impossible to afford, or tending to prevent or forbid something from happening. Derived formations include cost-prohibitive, nonprohibitive, prohibitively, prohibitiveness, and unprohibitive.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Money & Finance
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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