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Word Meanings - PROHIBITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. Prohibitory index. See under Index.

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  • OFFENSIVE
    1. Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words. 2. Giving pain or unpleasant sensations; disagreeable; revolting; noxious; as, an offensive smell; offensive sounds. "Offensive to the stomach."
  • FORBIDDANCE
    The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing. ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.
  • FORBIDDENLY
    In a forbidden or unlawful manner. Shak.
  • REPULSIVE
    1. Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force. Repulsive of his might the weapon stood. Pope. 2. Cold; forbidding; offensive; as, repulsive manners. -- Re*pul"sive*ly, adv. -- Re*pul"sive*ness, n.
  • PROHIBITORY
    Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. Prohibitory index. See under Index.
  • FORBIDDING
    Repelling approach; repulsive; raising abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air. Syn. -- Disagreeable; unpleasant; displeasing; offensive;
  • DETERRENT
    Serving to deter. "The deterrent principle." E. Davis.
  • FORBIDDEN
    Prohibited; interdicted. I kniw no spells, use no forbidden arts. Milton. Forbidden fruit. Any coveted unlawful pleasure, -- so called with reference to the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden. A small variety of shaddock . The name is
  • FORBIDDER
    One who forbids. Milton.
  • INOFFENSIVE
    1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. Milton.
  • SELF-REPULSIVE
    Self-repelling.
  • UNOFFENSIVE
    Inoffensive.
  • IDIOREPULSIVE
    Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat.

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