prohibitive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   tending to discourage (especially of prices)

   the price was prohibitive

2. 2
   adj

   Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.

   Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning.

3. 3
   adj

   Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.

   I'd like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.

4. 4
   adj

   Being the presumptive or likely winner of a contest.

   “I think there’s no question about that. I think he’s the prohibitive favorite if he gets in,” Dennis Lennox, a Michigan-based Republican political consultant, told Politico.

5. 5
   adj

   Requiring an unreasonable or impractical effort.

6. 6
   noun

   A negative imperative.

Etymology

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