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What is the adjective for prohibitions?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb prohibit which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

prohibitive
  1. Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
  2. Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. restraining, forbidding, prohibiting, prohibitory, repressive, restrictive, suppressive, inhibitory, proscriptive, deterring, confining, definitive, preventive, hampering, restricting, obstructive, cramping, constricting, limiting, antagonistic, off-putting, holding back, hindering, curbing, preventative, constraining, inhibiting, withholding, deterrent, tying, shackling, exorbitant, expensive, steep, excessive, extortionate, unreasonable, preposterous, outrageous, unaffordable, criminal, overinflated, scandalous, high-priced, sky-high, excessively high, beyond your means, more than one can afford, extravagant, costly … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “This restriction may be prohibitive in many applications.”
      “Gone are the days when game was seen as elitist because of prohibitive prices.”
prohibitional
  1. Relating to prohibition; serving to forbid or ban.
prohibitory
  1. That serves to prohibit or forbid
  2. Synonyms:
      3. restrictive, restraining, deterring, confining, constricting, cramping, definitive, hampering, obstructive, preventive, restricting, limiting, prohibitive, antagonistic, holding back, off-putting, prohibiting, forbidding, suppressive, repressive, inhibitory, proscriptive, hindering, curbing, preventative, constraining, inhibiting, withholding, deterrent, tying, shackling … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Without strong prohibitory measures, this diabolic spirit disseminated by television channels cannot be done away with.”
      “Nearly 206 years ago, the British regime issued the first prohibitory orders against shooting birds.”
      “They might not bring in totally restrictive and prohibitory provisions because they know the Minister will not approve them anyway.”
prohibited
  1. Forbidden; unallowed
  2. Synonyms:
      3. banned, forbidden, proscribed, illegal, outlawed, interdicted, taboo, verboten, unlawful, illicit, barred, illegitimate, impermissible, criminal, contraband, vetoed, crooked, disallowed, tabu, shady, restricted, wildcat, haram, tapu, refused, embargoed, not allowed, off limits, not permitted, against the law, non licet, no-go, no-no, out of bounds, out of line, not approved, closed down, unauthorized, unauthorised, excluded, unsanctioned, felonious, unlicensed, wrongful, precluded, actionable, ruled out, unofficial, lawless, unwarranted … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “EPO is banned, in and out of competition, under the World Anti-Doping Code's list of prohibited drugs.”
prohibitionistic
  1. Of or pertaining to a prohibition.
prohibitionary
  1. Serving to prohibit something.
  2. Examples:
      3. “Throughout the province there was a real threat that the federal government would pass a prohibitionary law.”
      “As the moral panic unfolds, more and more cultural forms transgress or come up against the symbolic boundary that such prohibitionary legislation seeks to impose.”
prohibitable
  1. Capable of being prohibited.
prohibiting
  1. present participle of prohibit
  2. Synonyms:
      3. forbidding, banning, outlawing, interdicting, proscribing, barring, disallowing, vetoing, enjoining, embargoing, restraining, tabooing, criminalising, criminalizing, debarring, blocking, corking, excluding, forfending, freezing, halting, inhibiting, killing, making illegal, nixing, ruling out, spiking, stymieing, zinging, bottling up, boxing in, hanging up, holding up, jamming up, locking up, placing an embargo on, putting down, shutting out, tying up, keeping lid on, putting half nelson on, throwing cold water on, pouring cold water on, thwarting, preventing, stopping, arresting, precluding … more
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