| Meaning | Serving to restrict. |
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| Example | "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments" |
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| Narrower | confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting | restricting the scope or freedom of action |
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| inhibitory, repressive, repressing | restrictive of action |
| limiting | strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase |
| regulative, regulatory | restricting according to rules or principles / principles |
| sumptuary | regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior |
| suppressive | tending to suppress |
| Opposite | unrestrictive | not tending to restrict |
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| Spanish | restrictivo |
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| Nouns | restrictiveness | a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits |
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| Adverbs | restrictively | in a restrictive manner |
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| Verbs | restrict | place limits on (extent or access) |
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| restrict | place restrictions on |
