The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preclusive
Preclusive \Pre*clu"sive\, a. Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering. -- Pre*clu"sive*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
preclusive
a. Serving to preclude.
WordNet
preclusive
adj. made impossible [syn: obviating(a)]
Usage examples of "preclusive".
After that he was downtown all day long, about the square, untalkative, dirty, with that furious and preclusive expression about the eyes which the people took for insanity: that quality of outworn violence like a scent, an odor.