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[syn: preclusive, obviating(a)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Preclusive \Pre*clu"sive\, a.
Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering.
-- Pre*clu"sive*ly, adv.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
preclusive
adj 1: made impossible [syn: preclusive, obviating(a)]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "preclusive":
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