restrictive

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French restrictif.

Pronunciation

• 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

confining; limiting

• Arabic: تَقْيِيدِيّ (taqyīdiyy)
• Belarusian: абме́жавальны (abmjéžavalʹny)
• Bulgarian: ограничи́телен (bg) (ograničítelen)
• Catalan: restrictiu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 限制性 (zh) (xiànzhìxìng)

• Czech: omezující, restriktivní
• Danish: restriktive
• Dutch: beperkend (nl)
• Estonian: piiravate
• Finnish: rajoittava (fi)
• French: restrictif (fr)
• German: einschränkend (de), restriktiv (de)
• Greek: περιοριστική (el) (perioristikí)
• Hindi: प्रतिबंधात्मक (pratibandhātmak)
• Hungarian: korlátozó (hu)
• Indonesian: ketat (id)
• Italian: restrittivo (it)
• Japanese: 限定的 (げんていてき, genteiteki)
• Korean: 한정적인 (hanjeongjeogin), 제한하는 (ko) (jehanhaneun)
• Latin: restrictivus
• Latvian: ierobežojošus
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: ribojančių
• Macedonian: ограничителен (ograničitelen), рестриктивен (restriktiven)
• Malay: ketat
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: restriktiv (no)

• Persian: محدود (fa) (mahdud)
• Polish: ograniczający
• Portuguese: restritivo
• Romanian: restrictiv (ro)
• Russian: ограничи́тельный (ru) (ograničítelʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рестриктиван

  Roman: restriktivan (sh)

• Slovak: obmedzujúci
• Slovene: omejevalen
• Spanish: restrictivo
• Thai: จำกัด (th) (jam-gàt)
• Turkish: kısıtlayıcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: обме́жувальний (obméžuvalʹnyj)
• Urdu: مؤکد
• Vietnamese: hạn chế (vi)

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French

Adjective

restrictive

1. feminine singular of restrictif