prohibitive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   So high in price or cost that something is impossible to afford.

   The cost of renting in the city centre is simply prohibitive.

2. 2
   adj

   Tending to prevent or forbid something from happening.

   The country has strict, prohibitive laws on gun ownership.

3. 3
   adj

   Very strongly favoured to win.

   She is the prohibitive favourite to win the election.

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

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