| Preclusive (a.) Shutting out; precluding, or tending to preclude; hindering. Thesaurus Entries 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 |