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prohibitively

adv. 1 In a prohibitive manner. 2 To a prohibitive extent.

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prohibitively

adv. to a prohibitive degree; "it is prohibitively expensive"

Usage examples of "prohibitively".

On the other hand, the cost of accessing the net is still prohibitively high.

The car was a stale Chrysler four-door on permanent loan from his father, its numerous arthritic complaints prohibitively expensive to treat, the missing passenger window a flapping sheet of taped plastic, the interior having been broken into five, six, seven times, routine in a neighborhood neither parent, to his indifference, would ever consent to visit.

Though he owned and managed a merchant fleet of more than a hundred space-folding cargo vessels, the technology was still prohibitively risky.