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Prohibitive vs Restraining - What's the difference?

prohibitive | restraining | Synonyms |

Prohibitive is a synonym of restraining.


As nouns the difference between prohibitive and restraining

is that prohibitive is (linguistics) negative imperative while restraining is the act by which someone or something is restrained.

As an adjective prohibitive

is tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.

As a verb restraining is

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prohibitive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
    • Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning.
  • Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
    • I'd like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) negative imperative

    • restraining

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone or something is restrained.
  • * George Meredith
    • She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said;