prohibitively
prohibitively — adverb
1. at a cost so high that people cannot afford the purchase or activity in question
at a cost so high that people cannot afford the purchase or activity in question — for example, when rent is prohibitively expensive for a teacher, the teacher cannot afford to live there.
Rent in downtown Seattle was prohibitively expensive for most young teachers.
collocation: prohibitively expensive
Cyrus wanted to study abroad, but found the tuition fees prohibitively high.
collocation: prohibitively high
Building a new hospital in the remote mountain village proved prohibitively costly.
The vintage guitar was priced prohibitively, so Baraka decided not to buy it.
For many families in rural areas, private healthcare remains prohibitively expensive.
- excessively
broader in scope; can describe any extreme degree, not just cost
- outrageously
more informal and emotional; implies the price is unreasonably or shockingly high
- astronomically
figurative and dramatic; suggests numbers that are unimaginably large
- reasonably
at a fair and acceptable price
- affordably
at a price that people can pay without difficulty
文法句型
prohibitively + adjective (expensive / high / costly)
用法筆記
Almost always modifies adjectives or verbs related to cost, such as 'expensive', 'high', 'costly', and 'priced'. Rarely used outside financial or economic contexts.