prohibitive

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to be expensive
cost a (small) fortuneThis trip cost a fortune.
cost an arm and a legDrinks at that club cost an arm and a leg.
be daylight robberyWhat they're charging to get in is daylight robbery.
be highway robbery$50 for two drinks? That's highway robbery!
be a rip-off£200 for a concert ticket is a total rip-off.
be prohibitively expensiveThe cost of textbooks alone makes schooling prohibitively expensive for many.
The cost of printing books in one-country languages is prohibitively high.
It is an expensive car to run, although not prohibitively so.
Winning an election against an incumbent can become prohibitively difficult.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Costing too much
bottomless pit
capital intensive
cheap
cheap at half the priceidiom
cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom
cost someone a pretty pennyidiom
cost someone dearidiom
costliness
daylight robbery
dear
exorbitant
gouge
outprice
pretty
price fixing
price someone out
price yourself out of the marketidiom
prohibitive
prohibitory
sight

prohibitively | Business English

prohibitively
adverb
uk /prəˈhɪbɪtɪvli/us
more than most people are able to pay:
Property in the area tends to be prohibitively expensive.
prohibitively high/costly/largeThe cost of retrofitting existing aircraft would be prohibitively high.

Examples of prohibitively

prohibitively
This would reduce the problem once more to determining sequences of scalars and, if one chooses well, their number need not be prohibitively large.
For more complicated constructions, such as the interpretation of polymorphic and recursive types, it appears that our external approach would become prohibitively overburdened with detail.
For example, without further optimization such an implementation is prohibitively inefficient in terms of storage consumption when large arrays are used.
Sample sizes are in general prohibitively small, and the informative matings will not always be available.
For structures with the total number of members that we are considering, the computation time for global optimization is prohibitively long.
The task of devising an ' artificial ' allotment norm was prohibitively complex.
Fully replicated designs are prohibitively expensive and are unnecessary from a statistical perspective.
Once the populations of these invaders are large enough to cause considerable damage, it may be prohibitively expensive to control them.
This would be prohibitively inefficient as a first-order deliberation procedure, even in easy cases.
In particular, some households may be located in isolated areas where transaction costs are prohibitively high, such that not trading in any market is optimal.
Fourthly, such eduction of the naturally occurring structures would be prohibitively time-consuming.
To replicate season-long field trials with a significant proportion of the possible combinations of such variables would be an immense and prohibitively expensive undertaking.
However, given the modest prevalence of most disorders the sample size would be prohibitively large.
Although simultaneous lifting is more general, it is usually prohibitively expensive computationally.
This would be prohibitively expensive to do for a full vocabulary.
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