Usually means: Restrictive; forbidding certain actions, behaviors.
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  1. prohibitory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prohibitory: Merriam-Webster
  3. prohibitory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prohibitory: Collins English Dictionary
  5. prohibitory: Vocabulary.com
  6. Prohibitory, prohibitory: Wordnik
  7. prohibitory: Wiktionary
  8. prohibitory: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Prohibitory, prohibitory: Dictionary.com
  10. Prohibitory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. prohibitory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. prohibitory: Rhymezone
  13. Prohibitory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. prohibitory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. prohibitory: FreeDictionary.org
  16. prohibitory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. prohibitory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. prohibitory: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. prohibitory: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (prohibitory)

▸ adjective:  That serves to prohibit or forbid

Similar:
prohibitive, preventive, preventative, suppressory, restrictionary, restricting, suppressive, deterrent, disinhibiting, retardative, more...

Opposite:
permissive, allowing, liberal, unrestricted, open

Types:
interdictory, prohibitive, more...

Phrases:
prohibitory injunction, prohibitory index, Prohibitory traffic sign, more...

Adjectives:
only, local, absurd, nigh, royal, general, prohib, further, present, more

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Similar:
prohibitive, preventive, preventative, suppressory, restrictionary, restricting, suppressive, deterrent, disinhibiting, retardative, more...

Opposite:
permissive, allowing, liberal, unrestricted, open

Types:
interdictory, prohibitive, more...

Phrases:
prohibitory injunction, prohibitory index, Prohibitory traffic sign, more...

Adjectives:
only, local, absurd, nigh, royal, general, prohib, further, present, more



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