restrictive

restrictive

English

Etymology

From Middle French restrictif.

Morphologically restrict +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈstɹɪktɪv/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪktɪv

Adjective

restrictive (comparative more restrictive, superlative most restrictive)

1. Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.
   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, OCLC 1023879857, page 168:

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

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 7:

     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. (Of clothing) limiting free and easy bodily movement.

Translations

confining; limiting

Arabic: تَقْيِيدِيّ‎ (taqyīdiyy) Belarusian: абме́жавальны (abmjéžavalʹny) Bulgarian: ограничи́телен (bg) (ograničítelen) Catalan: restrictiu Chinese: Mandarin: 限制性 (zh) (xiànzhìxìng) Czech: omezující, restriktivní Danish: restriktive Dutch: beperkend (nl) Estonian: piiravate Finnish: rajoittava (fi) French: restrictif (fr) German: einschränkend (de), restriktiv (de) Greek: περιοριστική (el) (perioristikí) Hindi: प्रतिबंधात्मक (pratibandhātmak) Hungarian: korlátozó (hu) Indonesian: ketat (id) Italian: restrittivo (it) Japanese: 限定的 (げんていてき, genteiteki) Korean: 한정적인 (hanjeongjeog-in), 제한하는 (ko) (jehanhaneun) Latin: restrictivus Latvian: ierobežojošus Lithuanian: ribojančių Macedonian: ограничителен (ograničitelen), рестриктивен (restriktiven) Malay: ketat Norwegian: Bokmål: restriktiv (no) Persian: محدود‎ (fa) (mahdud) Polish: ograniczający, restrykcyjny (pl) Portuguese: restritivo Romanian: restrictiv (ro) Russian: ограничи́тельный (ru) (ograničítelʹnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: рестриктиван Roman: restriktivan (sh) Slovak: obmedzujúci Slovene: omejevalen Spanish: restrictivo Thai: จำกัด (th) (jam-gàt) Turkish: kısıtlayıcı (tr) Ukrainian: обме́жувальний (obméžuvalʹnyj) Urdu: مؤکد‎ Vietnamese: hạn chế (vi)

Noun

restrictive (plural restrictives)

1. (grammar) A clause that narrows the meaning of a noun or noun phrase.
   • 2013, Noel Burton-Roberts, Analysing Sentences (page 210)

     […] 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; […]

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French

Adjective

restrictive

1. feminine singular of restrictif