Restrictive

3 definitions found

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

  Restrictive \Re*strict"ive\, a. [Cf. F. restrictif.]
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     1. Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a
        restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.
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     2. Astringent or styptic in effect. [Obs.] --Wiseman.
        [1913 Webster] --{Re*strict"ive*ly}, adv. --
        {Re*strict"ive*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  restrictive
       adj 1: serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive
              home environments" [ant: {unrestrictive}]
       2: (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting
          imports

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

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "restrictive":
     altering, assuasive, bounding, choking, confining, constrictive,
     contrary, counterproductive, cramping, crosswise, defining,
     definitive, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding, exclusive,
     exclusory, extenuating, extenuatory, hindering, hindersome,
     in the way, inadmissible, inhibiting, inhibitive, insular,
     interrupting, interruptive, lenitive, limitary, limitative,
     limiting, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory,
     modifying, modulatory, narrow, narrowing, obstructing, obstructive,
     obstruent, occlusive, palliative, parochial, preclusive,
     prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive, qualificative,
     qualificatory, qualifying, repressive, restricting, seclusive,
     segregative, select, selective, separative, snobbish, softening,
     stifling, strangling, suppressive, troublesome, xenophobic