Dictionary Definition
restrictive adj
1 serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape
restrictive home environments" [ant: unrestrictive]
2 (of tariff) protective of national interests by
restricting imports
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Adjective
restrictiveSynonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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