'Preclusive' definitions:
Definition of 'preclusive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Made impossible [syn: preclusive, obviating(a)]
Definition of 'Preclusive'
From: GCIDE
- Preclusive \Pre*clu"sive\, a. Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering. -- {Pre*clu"sive*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'preclusive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- deterrent,
- deterring,
- discouraging,
- ethnocentric,
- exceptional,
- excluding,
- exclusive,
- exclusory,
- forbidding,
- forestalling,
- inadmissible,
- inhibitive,
- inhibitory,
- insular,
- interdictive,
- interdictory,
- narrow,
- parochial,
- prescriptive,
- preventative,
- preventive,
- prohibiting,
- prohibitive,
- prohibitory,
- prophylactic,
- proscriptive,
- repressive,
- restrictive,
- seclusive,
- segregative,
- select,
- selective,
- separative,
- snobbish,
- suppressive,
- xenophobic