Word Meanings - PROHIBITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.

Related words: (words related to PROHIBITIVE)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• EFFECT
  Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects. For effect, for an exaggerated impression or excitement. -- In effect, in fact; in substance.
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• PROHIBITORY
  Tending to prohibit, forbid, or exclude; implying prohibition; forbidding; as, a prohibitory law; a prohibitory price. Prohibitory index. See under Index.
• EFFECTUATE
  To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
• PROHIBITIVE
  That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect is prohibitive.
• WHOSE
  The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
• EFFECTION
  Creation; a doing. Sir M. Hale.
• EFFECTLESS
  Without effect or advantage; useless; bootless. Shak. -- Ef*fect"less*ly, adv.
• EFFECTER
  One who effects.
• EFFECTUOUSLY
  Effectively.
• EFFECTUATION
  Act of effectuating.
• EFFECTIBLE
  Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible. Sir T. Browne.
• EFFECTUAL
  Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive. Shak. Effectual steps for the suppression of the rebellion. Macaulay. Effectual calling , a doctrine concerning the work of the
• EFFECTIVE
  Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment. They are not effective of anything, nor leave no
• EFFECTUALNESS
  The quality of being effectual.
• EFFECTUALLY
  1. With effect; efficaciously. 2. Actually; in effect. Fuller.
• EFFECTIVELY
  With effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly.
• EFFECTIVENESS
  The quality of being effective.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• INEFFECTIVE
  Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.
• INEFFECTUALLY
  Without effect; in vain. Hereford . . . had been besieged for abouineffectually by the Scots. Ludlow.
• INEFFECTUALNESS
  Want of effect, or of power to produce it; inefficacy. The ineffectualness of some men's devotion. Wake.
• NONEFFECTIVE
  Not fit or available for duty. (more info) 1. Not effective.
• PELTIER EFFECT
  The production or absorption of heat at the junction of two metals on the passage of a current. Heat generated by the passage of the current in one direction will be absorbed if the current is reversed.