Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

prohibitionistic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pro-hi-bi-tion-is-tic
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to a prohibition.

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From prohibition + -istic.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: prohibition

Inflected Forms

more prohibitionistic (comparative) most prohibitionistic (superlative)

Questions

What does prohibitionistic mean?: Of or pertaining to a prohibition.
Where does prohibitionistic come from?: From prohibition + -istic.

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