prohibitive
English
adj
Definitions
- Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
- Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
- (Of a contender in a competition): presumptive winner, likely winner.
Etymology
Suffix from English prohibit.
Origin
English
prohibit
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- nonprohibitive English
- prohibit English
- prohibitable English
- prohibiter English
- prohibiteth English
- prohibitin English
- prohibitively English
- prohibitiveness English
- prohibitory English
- reprohibit English
- unprohibitive English
- prohibeo Latin