restrictive

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English

Etymology

From Middle French restrictif.

Morphologically restrict +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈstɹɪktɪv/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪktɪv

Adjective

restrictive (comparative more restrictive, superlative most restrictive)

  1. Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.
    • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[1], page 7:
      The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).
  2. (Of clothing) limiting free and easy bodily movement.

Translations


French

Adjective

restrictive

  1. feminine singular of restrictif