prohibitively

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prohibitively

adverb more prohibitively · most prohibitively

In a prohibitive manner. Ghostlily, motherlily, manlily, beastlily are all dictionary-approved but prohibitively awkward, as is, in another way, lily-liveredly, Likylikely, though . . . […] In American English, at least, there seems to be no way to say something along these lines: “For the nine months I carried you, growing
To a prohibitive extent. a prohibitively expensive gift

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@misc{prohibitively_2026,
  title = {prohibitively},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/prohibitively},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}