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restrictive

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Adjective
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective restrictive has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

restrictivea. [Cf. F. restrictif.].
  •  Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Astringent or styptic in effect.  Wiseman.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

restrictive, adj. imposing restrictions.

Idiom
restrictive clause Gram. a relative clause, usu. without surrounding commas. restrictive practice Brit. an agreement to limit competition or output in industry.
Derivative
restrictively adv. restrictiveness n.
Etymology
ME f. OF restrictif -ive or med.L restrictivus (as RESTRICT)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

restrictive

Prohibition

N prohibition, inhibition, veto, disallowance, interdict, interdiction, injunction, estoppel, embargo, ban, taboo, proscription, index expurgatorius, restriction, hindrance, forbidden fruit, Maine law, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, restrictive, exclusive, forbidding, prohibited, not permitted, unlicensed, contraband, impermissible, under the ban of, illegal, unauthorized, not to be thought of, uncountenanced, unthinkable, beyond the pale, on no account, Int, forbid it heaven!, hands off!, keep off!, hold!, stop!, desist!, cease and desist!, avast!, that will never do, don't you dare, forget it, don't even think about doing it, go ahead, make my day.

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