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The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.
Caryl Chessman

Meaning of "prohibitive" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROHIBITIVE

prohibitive  [prəˈhɪbɪtɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROHIBITIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prohibitive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PROHIBITIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Imperative mood

The imperative is a grammatical mood that forms commands or requests, including the giving of prohibition or permission, or any other kind of exhortation. An example of a verb in the imperative mood is be in the English sentence "Please be quiet". Imperatives of this type imply a second-person subject; some languages also have first- and third-person imperatives, with the meaning of "let's " or "let him/her/them ". Imperative mood can be denoted by the glossing abbreviation IMP. It is one of the irrealis moods.

Definition of prohibitive in the English dictionary

The definition of prohibitive in the dictionary is prohibiting or tending to prohibit. Other definition of prohibitive is tending or designed to discourage sale or purchase.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROHIBITIVE


additive
ˈædɪtɪv
capacitive
kəˈpæsɪtɪv
cognitive
ˈkɒɡnɪtɪv
cohibitive
kəʊˈhɪbɪtɪv
competitive
kəmˈpɛtɪtɪv
creative
kriːˈeɪtɪv
definitive
dɪˈfɪnɪtɪv
exhibitive
ɪɡˈzɪbɪtɪv
fugitive
ˈfjuːdʒɪtɪv
HIV-positive
ˌeɪtʃaɪviːˈpɒzɪtɪv
inhibitive
ɪnˈhɪbɪtɪv
innovative
ˈɪnəˌveɪtɪv
integrative
ˈɪntɪˌɡreɪtɪv
intuitive
ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv
lambitive
ˈlæmbɪtɪv
native
ˈneɪtɪv
positive
ˈpɒzɪtɪv
primitive
ˈprɪmɪtɪv
repetitive
rɪˈpɛtɪtɪv
sensitive
ˈsɛnsɪtɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROHIBITIVE

progun
progymnasia
progymnasium
prohibit
prohibited substance
prohibiter
prohibition
prohibitionary
prohibitionism
prohibitionist
prohibitively
prohibitiveness
prohibitor
prohibitory
proin
proinsulin
project
project leader
project management
project manager

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROHIBITIVE

active
anticompetitive
aperitive
auditive
case-sensitive
diapositive
false positive
genitive
Gram-positive
infinitive
inquisitive
intransitive
nutritive
partitive
photosensitive
price-sensitive
punitive
seropositive
time-sensitive
touch-sensitive
transitive

Synonyms and antonyms of prohibitive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PROHIBITIVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «prohibitive» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of prohibitive

Translation of «prohibitive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROHIBITIVE

Find out the translation of prohibitive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prohibitive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prohibitive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

> 高得负担不起的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prohibitivo
570 millions of speakers

English

prohibitive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निषेधात्मक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

باهظة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

непомерно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

proibitivo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বাধাদায়ক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prohibitif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Larangan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unerschwinglich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

法外な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

엄청나게 비싼
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prohibitive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cấm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தடைசெய்யப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रतिबंधात्मक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yasaklayıcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

proibitivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wygórowane
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

непомірно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prohibitiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απαγορευτικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verbod
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oöverkomliga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uoverkommelige
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prohibitive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROHIBITIVE»

The term «prohibitive» is quite widely used and occupies the 39.077 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROHIBITIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prohibitive

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4 QUOTES WITH «PROHIBITIVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word prohibitive.
1
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
2
Caryl Chessman
The price I have personally paid for these extra Sisyphean years has been prohibitive.
3
Nathan Deal
As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
4
Jack Kilby
The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROHIBITIVE»

Discover the use of prohibitive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prohibitive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Prohibitive Policy: Implementing the Federal Endangered ...
In this book, Steven Yaffee examines the Endangered Species Act as an example of prohibitive policy, an extreme form of government regulation that has been used increasingly in recent years, especially in the environmental area.
Steven Lewis Yaffee, 1982
2
A Discussion of the Latin Prohibitive, Based Upon a Complete ...
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Herbert Charles Elmer, 2012
3
Institutional Competition
Different institutions may involve different kinds of rules. One important distinction may be made between: ○ prescriptive rules, and ○ prohibitive rules Prescriptive rules contain instructions for precisely what actions people should undertake in ...
Andreas Bergh, Rolf Ho ̈ijer, 2008
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A Grammar of Kwaza
any of the prohibitive moods as subject. As an object, however, the first person singular has been attested in the monitory mood, marked conspicuously by the imperative first person singular object cross-reference morpheme -ta?Ϳ-.
Hein van der Voort, 2004
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The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures
both in declarative and prohibitive sentences, but, in contrast to the aficirmative imperative, the subject pronoun is obligatory in the prohibitive. (5) Casamancese Creole (Biagui & Quint 2013) a. Kantd.' sing 'Sing!' (affirmative imperative) b.
Susanne Maria Michaelis, Philippe Maurer, Martin Haspelmath, 2013
6
Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics
The prohibitive superego is the intrapsychic structure that gives a person the human capacity for guilt. The contents of the prohibitive superego represent an internalized moral system that begins with the internalization of the more realistic  ...
Morris Altman
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Syntax of Early Latin
167 First Singular Hortatory 107 The Prohibitive Subjunctive 167 The Present Prohibitive 168 Second Singular with ne . ....... 168 Second Singular (Present Prohibitive) with ni . . . 169 Third Singular (Present Prohibitive) with ne . . . . 169 Third ...
Charles Edwin Bennett, 1966
8
The Free Trade Advocate and Journal of Political Economy: ...
But they were advised to return to the prohibitive system, in order to protect the domestic manufacturer against the importation of foreign exotics, and to insure the British artisan employment in domestic manufactures. Now he would not say any ...
‎1829
9
The Dravidian Languages
occurs in the prohibitive only), the plural is found in Telugu (the suffix -V.n. dupresupposes an older ∗-ndu), Ko.n.da, Kui and Kuvi. The other set of suffixes, ∗-wa (in which -wbecomes a glottal stop in Ko.n.da, Kui and Kuvi) in the singular and ...
Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, 2003
10
Negation in Arawak Languages
table 7 Prohibitive construction types Prohibitive type Prohibitive construction Expression of negation Type I same as imperative same as standard negation Type II same as imperative different from standard negation Type III different from  ...
Lev Michael, Tania Granadillo, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROHIBITIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prohibitive is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Struggle To Breathe Life Back Into Empty Schools
"The cost of tearing this buildings down is very prohibitive — anywhere from a half million dollars up to a million," Gaffney says. "This was a ... «WABE 90.1 FM, Jul 15»
2
Saint John transgender woman fights to change birth certificate
Otteson acknowledged Halvorsen's case and said, with the price of the surgery, changing a gender marker is prohibitive. "It's something that ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
3
Oh-Oh: MSM Starting to Notice that Hillary! Is Stumbling
... would destroy the GOP has about the same approval ratings in Colorado and Iowa as the prohibitive favorite for the Democratic nomination. «PJ Media, Jul 15»
4
Parents scrambling as time runs out for Markham daycare
... costs, including the city's insistence that the daycare pay the cost of connecting the property to the municipal sewer system, were prohibitive. «MetroNews Canada, Jul 15»
5
What Jeb Bush and Carly Fiorina Aren't Saying About Climate Change
The immense costs are also prohibitive. Commercializing energy technology typically involves substantial up-front capital investment and ... «National Journal, Jul 15»
6
Manchester City 8-1 Vietnam: Raheem Sterling, David Silva and …
As many as 20,000 had turned out to see City train here on Sunday night so it's safe to assume that any empty seats were due to the prohibitive ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
7
Pocono: Horses to watch from July 21 - July 26
BIG TIME ROCKS (NW3500) flashed some late foot in race won by a front stepping prohibitive favorite and could improve a bunch in next if the ... «Daily Racing Form, Jul 15»
8
Is Clinton's Tide Shifting?
While in all probability Clinton remains the prohibitive favorite to win the nomination, it is true that her favorable ratings have taken a tumble. «National Journal, Jul 15»
9
Gosselin: Why I'd be surprised if Rangers closed the deal on Hamels
But I think the Phillies make the cost prohibitive. There's a lot of money sitting in that rotation — Darvish, Holland and Harrison all have big ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
10
Organization plowing ahead to provide organic certification
... state certification program, “the only option for organic farming is to go to another state,” for certification, Litsinger said. “It's cost prohibitive.”. «Nevada Appeal, Jul 15»

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