prohibitive

Definitions

So high or expensive that it prevents people from using or buying something.

Serving to forbid or restrict an action or practice.

Examples

The cost of renovating the historic building was so prohibitive that the project had to be abandoned.

High interest rates have become a prohibitive barrier for many first-time homebuyers.

The insurance premiums for such a high-risk venture were simply prohibitive.

Synonyms

exorbitant expensive unaffordable steep excessive restrictive forbidding

Antonyms

affordable reasonable cheap inexpensive moderate permissive accessible