different between prohibitive vs restraining

English

prohibit +? -ive

prohibitive (comparative more prohibitive, superlative most prohibitive)

Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
Some countries are more prohibitive than others when it comes to hot topics like euthanasia and cloning.
Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
I'd like to visit Europe someday, but the cost is prohibitive right now.
(Of a contender in a competition): presumptive winner, likely winner.

prohibitive (plural prohibitives)

prohibitive

restraining

restraining (plural restrainings)

The act by which someone or something is restrained.
- 1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage
  She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […]

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