prohibitively

Examples

• All

• Industry standard is pretty much that you would rent the equipment because it's so prohibitively expensive to own.

  The Disaster Artist (2017)

• And third, such suits might prove prohibitively difficult to bring.

  Academic text (2017)

• The city had become prohibitively expensive, and it had become prohibitively dangerous.

  Fiction book (1998)

• But procedures like that would be prohibitively expensive.

  Bicentennial Man (1999)

• But the lease has gotten prohibitively expensive, and unless you want to camp out in the kitchen...

  The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)

• Trips to distant scientific meetings by a professor and several students may become prohibitively expensive.

  Academic text (2009)

• The cost of research in such fields as particle physics and molecular biology is prohibitively expensive.

  Academic text (1996)

• High interest rates in Brazil stymie the country's growth by making it almost prohibitively expensive to do just about anything.

  Academic text (2012)

• Land acquisition for protected areas and compensation for lost resource-based livelihoods are often prohibitively expensive.

  Academic text (2004)

• And to buy organically grown foods, I recognized, would have been prohibitively expensive and inconvenient beyond my tolerance.

  Fiction book (1994)

Synonyms

I

insurmountably

vsprohibitively

1 8.8

In a way that cannot be overcome

prevents action by making it too costly or difficult rather than impossible

U

unfeasibly

vsprohibitively

6.9

In a way that is not possible or very hard to do

prevents action because cost or difficulty make it impractical

I

impracticably

vsprohibitively

• Formal

7.4

In a way that is too difficult or impossible to do

prevents action mainly by high cost or great difficulty

U

unachievably

vsprohibitively

8.4

In a way that cannot be reached

prevents action because expense or difficulty make success unreachable

I

insuperably

vsprohibitively

• Formal

9.9

In a way that cannot be overcome

prevents action through burden or cost rather than absolute impossibility

Antonyms

A

affordably

2 3.2

In a way that does not cost too much money

How Inhibiting

prohibitively

7 7.1

seriously

606 1.6

considerably

144 3.4

partly

375 1.0

minimally

22 3.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology