Usually means: Excessively costly or difficult; preventing.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. prohibitively: Merriam-Webster
  2. prohibitively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prohibitively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prohibitively: Vocabulary.com
  5. prohibitively: Wordnik
  6. prohibitively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. prohibitively: Wiktionary
  8. prohibitively: Dictionary.com
  9. prohibitively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. prohibitively: Rhymezone
  11. prohibitively: FreeDictionary.org
  12. prohibitively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. prohibitively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prohibitively: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. prohibitively: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a prohibitive manner.
▸ adverb:  To a prohibitive extent.

Similar:
forbiddingly, inhibitively, hinderingly, oppressively, obstructively, unaffordably, proscriptively, inordinately, onerously, encumberingly, more...

Opposite:
affordably, reasonably, feasibly

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Similar:
forbiddingly, inhibitively, hinderingly, oppressively, obstructively, unaffordably, proscriptively, inordinately, onerously, encumberingly, more...

Opposite:
affordably, reasonably, feasibly

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark gray,     charcoal,     maroon, more...



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