Prohibition vs Prohibitive - What's the difference?
prohibition | prohibitive |
An act of prohibiting]], forbidding, disallowing, or [[proscribe, proscribing something.
A law prohibiting the manufacture or sale of alcohol.
Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
As nouns the difference between prohibition and prohibitive
is that prohibition is an act of prohibiting, forbidding, disallowing, or proscribing something while prohibitive is negative imperative.As a proper noun Prohibition
is any of several periods during which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages were restricted or illegal.As an adjective prohibitive is
tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.prohibition
English
(wikipedia prohibition)Noun
Synonyms
* (l)Antonyms
* permissionprohibitive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning.
- I'd like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.