prohibitionistic

adjective

Of or pertaining to a prohibition.

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Meanings

adjectiveprohibitionistic (comparative more prohibitionistic, superlative most prohibitionistic)

comparative more prohibitionistic · superlative most prohibitionistic

  1. Of or pertaining to a prohibition.

    But by then I’d settled into a pattern of weird, wrecked eating in which I maintained a bizarre prohibitionistic list of foods I was never to touch.

    2009 October 11, Zz Packer, “No Polenta, No Cry”, in New York Times

Origin

From prohibition + -istic.

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APA

prohibitionistic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prohibitionistic

MLA

“prohibitionistic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prohibitionistic. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “prohibitionistic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/prohibitionistic.

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