| ADJECTIVE | all | restrictive | serving to restrict |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | restrictive | (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports |
| Sounds | riystrih'ktihv | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abortive ... vituperative: 304 rhymes with ihv... | |
| Meaning | Serving to restrict. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments" | |
| Narrower | confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting | restricting the scope or freedom of action |
| 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 |
| Spanish | restrictivo | |
| Nouns | restrictiveness | a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits |
| Adverbs | restrictively | in a restrictive manner |
| Verbs | restrict | place limits on (extent or access) |
| restrict | place restrictions on | |
| Meaning | (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | protective | Intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind |
| Spanish | restrictivo | |
| Verbs | restrict | place under restrictions |
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