'Restrictive' definitions:
Definition of 'restrictive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments" [ant: unrestrictive]
adjective
(of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports
Definition of 'Restrictive'
From: GCIDE
- Restrictive \Re*strict"ive\, a. [Cf. F. restrictif.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Astringent or styptic in effect. [Obs.] --Wiseman. [1913 Webster] --{Re*strict"ive*ly}, adv. -- {Re*strict"ive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'restrictive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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