PROHIBITIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prohibitively mean? 

• PROHIBITIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb PROHIBITIVELY has 1 sense:

1. to a prohibitive degree

  Familiarity information: PROHIBITIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROHIBITIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a prohibitive degree

Context example:

it is prohibitively expensive

Pertainym:

prohibitive (tending to discourage (especially of prices))

 Context examples 

Organic and Synthetic Chemistry Shared Resource provides researchers in Cancer Center with custom synthesis of chemicals pertaining to cancer biology in terms of causation, prevention, and intervention, that are not commercially available or are prohibitively expensive, and expertise in biocatalysis, organometallics, chiral synthesis, biotransformations, enzyme inhibitors.

(Organic and Synthetic Chemistry Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)