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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective permissive has 2 senses
- permissive(a = adj.all) Array - not preventive; Array Antonym: preventive
- permissive(a = adj.all) Array - granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline; "direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive"; "permissive parents" Derived forms noun permissiveness1, verb permit1, verb permit3
Antonym: unpermissive
CIDE DICTIONARY
permissive, a.
- Permitting; granting leave or liberty. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Permitted; tolerated; suffered. Milton. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
permissive, adj.
1 tolerant; liberal, esp. in sexual matters (the permissive society).
2 giving permission.
1 tolerant; liberal, esp. in sexual matters (the permissive society).
2 giving permission.
Idiom
permissive legislation legislation giving powers but not enjoining their use.
Derivative
permissively adv. permissiveness n.
Etymology
ME f. OF (-if -ive) or med.L permissivus (as PERMIT)
THESAURUS
permissive
accommodating, accordant, acquiescent, admissive, affable, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, allowing, amiable, approving, assenting, benevolent, benign, benignant, broad-minded, careless, complaisant, compliable, compliant, conditional, consentient, consenting, content, culpably negligent, decent, derelict, eager, easy, easygoing, endorsing, favorable, freethinking, generous, gracious, imperative, impotent, imprecise, inadvertent, inattentive, indicative, indifferent, indulgent, jussive, kind, kindly, laissez-faire, latitudinarian, lax, lenient, liberal, libertarian, libertine, loose, mode, mood, neglectful, neglecting, negligent, noninterfering, nonprohibitive, nonrestrictive, nothing loath, obligative, obliging, off-guard, open-minded, optative, overindulgent, overly permissive, overpermissive, permitting, potential, procrastinating, prompt, ratifying, ready, relaxed, remiss, sanctioning, scamping, skimping, slack, slighting, slipshod, sloppy, slurring, soft, subjunctive, submissive, suffering, tolerant, tolerating, unbigoted, uncircumspect, ungrudging, unguarded, unloath, unprohibitive, unrefusing, unreluctant, unrestrained, unrigorous, unwary, unwatchful, weak, willingROGET THESAURUS
permissive
Permission
N permission, leave, allowance, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, liberty, law, license, concession, grace, indulgence, favor, dispensation, exemption, release, connivance, vouchsafement, authorization, warranty, accordance, admission, permit, warrant, brevet, precept, sanction, authority, firman, hukm, pass, passport, furlough, license, carte blanche, ticket of leave, grant, charter, patent, letters patent, permitting, permissive, indulgent, permitted, patent, chartered, permissible, allowable, lawful, legitimate, legal, legalized, licit, unforbid, unforbidden, unconditional, by leave, with leave, on leave, speciali gratia, under favor of, pace, ad libitum, by all means, yes, avec permissin, brevet d'invention.
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