restrictive
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈstɹɪktɪv/
adj
Etymology: From Middle French restrictif. Morphologically restrict + -ive.
- 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).”
- 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.
- 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; […]”