prohibitiveadjective
uk/prəˈhɪb.ɪ.tɪv/us/proʊˈhɪb.ə.t̬ɪv/If the cost of something is prohibitive, it is too expensive for most people:
Hotel prices in the major cities are high but not prohibitive.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Costing too much
- break
- capital intensive
- cheap
- cost
- cost an arm and a leg/a small fortune idiom
- costly
- daylight robbery
- highway robbery
- knock
- knock sb back (sth)
- money pit
- not come cheap idiom
- odds
- over the odds idiom
- overcharge
- pretty
- set sb back (sth)
- steep
- stiff
- usury
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prohibitively
adverb uk/prəˈhɪb.ɪ.tɪv.li/us/proʊˈhɪb.ə.t̬ɪv.li/
Property in the area tends to be prohibitively expensive.