Antonyms for prohibitive
proʊˈhɪb ɪ tɪvpro·hib·i·tive

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1. prohibitive, prohibitoryadjective

   tending to discourage (especially of prices)

   "the price was prohibitive"

   Antonyms:
   permissive

   Synonyms:
   prohibitory

How to use prohibitive in a sentence?

1. Parmigiano Reggiano:

   There are going to be some items ... that the supermarkets are just not going to handle anymore. It'll be price prohibitive for that.

2. Shannon Symonds:

   I'm glad that The Nintendo Play Station is highlighting the need for video game preservation, and obviously I wish Terry Diebold and his son'd been able to have The Nintendo Play Station in the museum's collection, but Terry Diebold and his son've never had the goal of getting every single piece of gaming history. Not only would it be prohibitive in terms of money and space, it's also not necessary to tell the history of video games.

3. An EU source:

   It should therefore go beyond symbolism but be understood as prohibitive pricing, if a member state does not show solidarity in taking in refugees, it has to compensate with financial solidarity.

4. Lisa Hawkins:

   A 50 % tariff on American whiskeys would no doubt make it cost prohibitive for some craft distillers to do business in European Union after all the time, energy and investment they spent working to break into this important international market.

5. Julius Baer analyst Carsten Menke:

   The costs of direct military confrontation are prohibitive, and disrupting oil flows would alienate loose allies such as China and India, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a key chokepoint of global oil flows, remains a very unlikely event.

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