Permissive

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Permissive \Per*mis"sive\ (p[~e]r*m[i^]s"s[i^]v), a.
     1. Permitting; granting leave or liberty. "By his permissive
        will." --Milton.
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     2. Permitted; tolerated; suffered. --Milton.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  permissive
       adj 1: not preventive [ant: {preventive}]
       2: granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict
          in discipline; "direct primary legislation is largely
          permissive rather than prescriptive"; "permissive parents"
          [ant: {unpermissive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  107 Moby Thesaurus words for "permissive":
     accommodating, accordant, acquiescent, admissive, affable,
     affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, allowing, amiable, approving,
     assenting, benevolent, benign, benignant, broad-minded, careless,
     complaisant, compliable, compliant, conditional, consentient,
     consenting, content, culpably negligent, decent, derelict, eager,
     easy, easygoing, endorsing, favorable, freethinking, generous,
     gracious, imperative, impotent, imprecise, inadvertent,
     inattentive, indicative, indifferent, indulgent, jussive, kind,
     kindly, laissez-faire, latitudinarian, lax, lenient, liberal,
     libertarian, libertine, loose, mode, mood, neglectful, neglecting,
     negligent, noninterfering, nonprohibitive, nonrestrictive,
     nothing loath, obligative, obliging, off-guard, open-minded,
     optative, overindulgent, overly permissive, overpermissive,
     permitting, potential, procrastinating, prompt, ratifying, ready,
     relaxed, remiss, sanctioning, scamping, skimping, slack, slighting,
     slipshod, sloppy, slurring, soft, subjunctive, submissive,
     suffering, tolerant, tolerating, unbigoted, uncircumspect,
     ungrudging, unguarded, unloath, unprohibitive, unrefusing,
     unreluctant, unrestrained, unrigorous, unwary, unwatchful, weak,
     willing
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PERMISSIVE. Allowed; that which may be done; as permissive waste, which is 
  the permitting real estate to go to waste; when a tenant is bound to repair 
  he is punishable for permissive waste. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2400. See Waste.