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Definition of Prohibitive
1. Adjective. Tending to discourage (especially of prices). "The price was prohibitive"
Definition of Prohibitive
1. a. That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.
Definition of Prohibitive
1. Adjective. Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow. ¹
2. Adjective. Costly to the extreme; beyond budget. ¹
3. Noun. (linguistics) negative imperative ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prohibitive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prohibitive
Literary usage of Prohibitive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Native Writings in Massachusett by Ives Goddard, Kathleen Joan Bragdon (1988)
"Prohibitive The prohibitive forms with second person or third person subjects (except
for those with ... Inanimate intransitive II prohibitive forms: (0). ..."
2. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"noli, manni closely resembles the Tamil suffix min, in such words as iey(y)an-min,
do not ye; but the resemblance is purely accidental, for the prohibitive ..."
3. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"noli, manni closely resembles the Tamil suffix min, in such words as &ey(y)an-min,
do not ye; but the resemblance is purely accidental, for the prohibitive ..."
4. Critique of Some Recent Subjunctive Theories by Charles Edwin Bennett (1898)
"ON THE FORCE OF TENSES IN THE Prohibitive. In the American Journal of Philology,
Vol. xv, No. 2, Elmer has discussed the force of tenses in the prohibitive. ..."
5. Statutes and Statutory Construction: Including a Discussion of Legislative by Jabez Gridley Sutherland (1904)
"Preceptive, prohibitive and permissive statutes. ... A prohibitive statute is
one that forbids all actions which disturb the public repose, and injury to ..."
6. Syntax of Early Latin by Charles Edwin Bennett (1910)
"169 Third Singular (Present Prohibitive) with ni . . . .169 Second Plural Present
Prohibitive 169 Third Plural Present Prohibitive 170 Present Prohibitive ..."
7. The Laws of Marriage: Containing the Hebrew Law, the Roman Law, the Law of by John Fulton (1883)
"OF Prohibitive IMPEDIMENTS. § "2. Prohibitive impediments are obstacles or
prohibitions which forbid ;i marriage altogether, or which forbid it to be ..."
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