prohibitionistic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

prohibition +‎ -istic

Adjective[edit]

prohibitionistic (comparative more prohibitionistic, superlative most prohibitionistic)

  1. Of or pertaining to a prohibition.
    • 2009 October 11, Zz Packer, “No Polenta, No Cry”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.