Prohibitive
[prə(ʊ)'hɪbɪtɪv] or [prə'hɪbətɪv]
Definition
(adj.) tending to discourage (especially of prices); 'the price was prohibitive' .
Typed by Lloyd--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.
Checked by Annabelle
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Prohibitory.
Typist: Silvia
Examples
- The tremendous problems of heat and the prohibitive quantities of copper that would be required for conductors for such lamps would be absolutely out of the question in commercial practice. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As he contemplated the concentration of six thousand tons daily, the expense of manual labor to move such an immense quantity of rock, sand, and ore would be absolutely prohibitive. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are overwhelmingly rich in biographic material, but analysis would be a prohibitive task for one person, and perhaps interesting only to technical readers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Typist: Silvia