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Prohibitory
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1. prohibitive, prohibitory
tending to discourage (especially of prices)
Example Sentences:'the price was prohibitive'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Prohibitory
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a variant form of prohibitive
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Prohibitory
see synonyms of prohibitoryadj.
1. Prohibiting; forbidding: took prohibitive measures.
2. So high or burdensome as to discourage purchase or use: prohibitive prices.
3. So likely to win as to discourage competition: the prohibitive favorite to win the nomination.
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