overpermissive
English
Etymology
over- + permissive
Adjective
overpermissive (comparative more overpermissive, superlative most overpermissive)
- Excessively permissive; allowing too much leeway.
- 1975, Thomas D. Gnagey, How to Put Up with Parents: A Guide for Teenagers, page 90:
- It is the overpermissive parent who raises the well known spoiled brat.
- 2003, Liz Palika, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Yorkshire Terriers:
- The most common type of owner I see with Yorkies are the overpermissive owners. Overpermissive owners want to spoil their dogs and usually freely admit they spoil their dogs.
- 2005, Martine Irma Robbeets, Is Japanese Related to Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic?, page 136:
- The Mongolic proposal for 'strap, tether' is semantically overpermissive.