That prohibits; having the effect of forbidding, preventing, or excluding; preventative or restrictive of (or †for) something.

Of the nature of an inhibition; prohibitory.

Of a command, statute, precept, etc.: prohibitory, inhibitive.

That prohibits, restricts, or forbids; = prohibitive, adj. 1.

That forbids, in senses of the verb.

(esp. Psychology).

That serves or tends to inhibit; inhibitory. Also as n., An inhibition.