restrictive

3 definitions found

restrictive - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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restrictive - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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

restrictive - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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