how to pronounce prohibitive

/pɹoʊˈhɪbətɪv/

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prohibitive is pronounced in four syllables

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pɹoʊhɪbətɪv

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An example use of prohibitive in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… that is not prohibitive so you're …”

meanings of prohibitive

adjective:

  1. Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
  2. Presumptive winner, likely winner.
  3. Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.

noun:

  1. Negative imperative.

prohibitive frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word prohibitive occurs in english on average 0.8 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics prohibitive can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that prohibitive can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;

3) people, society, and culture;

words with pronunciation similar to prohibitive

prohibitedprohibitprovocative

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