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Adjective: restrictive  ri'striktiv
  1. Serving to restrict
    "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments"
     
  2. (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports

See also: confining, constraining, constrictive, inhibitory, limiting, protective, regulative, regulatory, repressing, repressive, restrict, restricting, restrictively, restrictiveness, sumptuary, suppressive

Antonym: unrestrictive

Nearest

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