prohibitive
adjective
serving or tending to prohibit or forbid something.
prohibitively
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a word derived from
prohibitive.
Example Sentences
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More broadly, the method could help scientists tackle problems in which successful results are uncommon, the number of possible experiments is enormous, and testing every option would be prohibitively expensive.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
Icebreaker ships are relatively few and they are prohibitively expensive.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Companies initially nudged employees to use AI more in their work, but soon some saw the bills as prohibitively high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Americans now spend tens of billions of dollars a year on their animals, and in a country where raising children has become prohibitively expensive, many people lavish their pets instead.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
This sounds reasonable, but in most cases it’s simply impossible or, what amounts to the same thing, prohibitively expensive.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
