prohibitive

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A negative imperative.
形容词 adj.
  1. Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
    — Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning.
  2. Requiring an unreasonable or impractical effort.
  3. Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
    — I'd like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.
  4. Being the presumptive or likely winner of a contest. US
    — “I think there’s no question about that. I think he’s the prohibitive favorite if he gets in,” Dennis Lennox, a Michigan-based Republican political consultant, told Politico.

词形变化

more prohibitive comparative most prohibitive superlative prohibitives plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cost-prohibitive nonprohibitive prohibitively prohibitive mood prohibitiveness unprohibitive

词源

词源 1
From Middle English prohibitif, prohibityve, from Medieval Latin prohibitīvus, from prohibit-, past-participle stem of Latin prohibēre. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ive.
词源 2
From Middle English prohibitif, prohibityve, from Medieval Latin prohibitīvus, from prohibit-, past-participle stem of Latin prohibēre. By surface analysis, prohibit + -ive.
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