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restriction enzyme |
restriction fragment |
restriction nuclease |
restriction site |
restrictionary |
restrictive
| restrictive clause
| restrictively
| restrictiveness
| restringe
| restringency
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restrictive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective restrictive has 2 senses
- restrictive(a = adj.all) Array - serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments" Derived forms verb restrict3, verb restrict1, noun restrictiveness2
- restrictive(s = adj.all) Array - (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports; Array Derived form verb restrict2
Antonym: unrestrictive
CIDE DICTIONARY
restrictive, a. [Cf. F. restrictif.].
- Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade. [1913 Webster]
- Astringent or styptic in effect. Wiseman. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
restrictive, adj. imposing restrictions.
Idiom
restrictive clause Gram. a relative clause, usu. without surrounding commas. restrictive practice Brit. an agreement to limit competition or output in industry.
Derivative
restrictively adv. restrictiveness n.
Etymology
ME f. OF restrictif -ive or med.L restrictivus (as RESTRICT)
THESAURUS
restrictive
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, xenophobicROGET THESAURUS
restrictive
Prohibition
N prohibition, inhibition, veto, disallowance, interdict, interdiction, injunction, estoppel, embargo, ban, taboo, proscription, index expurgatorius, restriction, hindrance, forbidden fruit, Maine law, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, restrictive, exclusive, forbidding, prohibited, not permitted, unlicensed, contraband, impermissible, under the ban of, illegal, unauthorized, not to be thought of, uncountenanced, unthinkable, beyond the pale, on no account, Int, forbid it heaven!, hands off!, keep off!, hold!, stop!, desist!, cease and desist!, avast!, that will never do, don't you dare, forget it, don't even think about doing it, go ahead, make my day.
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