prohibitory

1. 1.

   tending to discourage (especially of prices)

   “the price was prohibitive”

   Synonymsprohibitive

   Similarpreventive

Questions about prohibitory

What does prohibitory mean?

prohibitory means "tending to discourage (especially of prices)".

How many syllables are in prohibitory?

prohibitory has 5 syllables: pro-hib-i-to-ry. The stress falls on "hib". In IPA it is /pɹoʊˈhɪbəˌtɔɹi/.

What is another word for prohibitory?

Close synonyms include prohibitive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prohibitory a common word?

prohibitory is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with prohibitory?

59 words rhyme with prohibitory. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.