Prohibitive vs Prohibits - What's the difference?
prohibitive | prohibits |
Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
(prohibit)
To forbid, disallow, or proscribe officially; to make illegal or illicit.
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As an adjective prohibitive
is tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.As a noun prohibitive
is (linguistics) negative imperative.As a verb prohibits is
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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.
prohibits
English
Verb
(head)prohibit
English
Verb
(en verb)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited , yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
