English-French translations for prohibitive

• prohibitif
  Ils ont introduit des droits élevés et prohibitifs. They have introduced high, prohibitive fees.
  Ce coût est beaucoup trop prohibitif. This cost is utterly prohibitive.
  Les frais des droits d'entrée ne devraient pas être prohibitifs. Entrance fees should not be prohibitive.

Definition of prohibitive

• Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow
• Costly to the extreme; beyond budget
• Of a contender in a competition): presumptive winner, likely winner
• negative imperative

Examples

• Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning.
• Id like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.

Related words

• prohibition
• Prohibition
• prohibitively
• prohibitionism
• prohibitionary
• antiprohibitionism
• prohibition order