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restrictive

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈstɹɪktɪv/

adj

Etymology: From Middle French restrictif. Morphologically restrict + -ive.

  1. Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.

    The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.

    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. limiting free and easy bodily movement.

    Some of them [teenagers] who will become lesbians clearly are being hit with the same kind of garbage which we got hit with in the fifties. There's been a real resurgence of that in terms of values and double standards and music. The clothes again — we're back to high heels and restrictive little femmy outfits.

noun

Etymology: From Middle French restrictif. Morphologically restrict + -ive.

  1. A clause that narrows the meaning of a noun or noun phrase.

    […] a couple of further differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses: (1) in contrast with restrictives, the wh-phrase in non-restrictives cannot be ellipted; […]