Word · CEFR C1 · Frequency #21149
prohibitively
过度地；令人望而却步地
to a prohibitive degree
常修饰形容词，如 expensive：贵得买不起。
- 1.
In a prohibitive manner.
以禁止的方式
- 2.
To a prohibitive extent.
达到令人望而却步的程度
以禁止的方式；达到令人望而却步的程度；禁止；起阻止作用；抑制
In use
The rent in this area is prohibitively expensive for most young workers.
Traveling to the remote island was prohibitively costly, so we decided to stay home.
The software license is prohibitively priced for small businesses.
prohibitively + adj.
prohibitively 常修饰 expensive、costly、high 等表示价格或难度的形容词，强调高到让人无法承受或尝试。
The airfare was prohibitively expensive, so we decided to take the train.
机票贵得令人望而却步，所以我们决定坐火车。
prohibitively + past participle
过去分词如 priced 与 prohibitively 搭配时，同样表示“定价高到让人买不起”。
Many cancer drugs are prohibitively priced for patients in developing countries.
许多抗癌药物对发展中国家的患者而言，价格高得令人望而却步。
Connections
Collocations
- prohibitively expensive
- 过于昂贵，贵得令人望而却步
- The rent in the city center is prohibitively expensive for most young workers.市中心的房租对大多数年轻工人来说贵得令人望而却步。
- prohibitively high
- 高得难以承受
- The cost of this treatment remains prohibitively high for many patients.这种治疗的费用对许多患者来说仍然高得难以承受。
- prohibitively costly
- 昂贵得难以承担
- Rebuilding the entire bridge would be prohibitively costly for the town.为这个城镇重建整座桥将昂贵得难以承担。
- prohibitively difficult
- 难到让人无法做到
- Without proper equipment, the climb is prohibitively difficult.没有合适的装备，这次攀登难到让人无法完成。
- prohibitively time-consuming
- 耗时多得令人无法接受
- Manual data entry is prohibitively time-consuming for large projects.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想 prohibit（禁止）：价格高到像被禁止购买一样，令人望而却步。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：学术写作、新闻报道、商务讨论 该词比较常见于正式书面语，多与 expensive 等形容词连用，强调程度高到让人无法承担或接受；日常口语中较少单独使用，常用 too... 来表达类似意思。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Only inhibitively (/ɪnˈhɪbɪtɪvli/) rhymes fully with prohibitively, because the stressed vowel and everything after it match. Words such as positively (/ˈpɒzətɪvli/), creatively (/kriˈeɪtɪvli/), relatively (/ˈrelətɪvli/) and natively (/ˈneɪtɪvli/) are spelling lookalikes sharing the ending -itively, but they have a different stressed vowel or rhythm and do not rhyme.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, OCTANOVE, WIKTIONARY.