constrictive

Speech parts

1. constrictive - Adjective

2. constrictive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Serving or tending to bind or constrict.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

limiting narrowing restricting confining constraining constricting close extreme accurate narrow binding strict tight contracting stringent
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Antonyms

slack free wide liberal easy broad
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Phrases with the word

constrictive consonant constrictive pericarditis

Examples

Rowling (1997) p. 132/180 Hermione's knack for logic later enables the trio to solve a puzzle that is essential to retrieving the Philosopher's Stone, and she defeats the constrictive Devil's Snare plant by summoning a jet of "bluebell flame". Source: Internet

Although some cattle outside of the park have tested positive for exposure to brucellosis — which results in constrictive and expensive quarantines — the transmissions have been traced to wild elk, which also carry the disease. Source: Internet

Neutzling eventually found a physician who performed a lung biopsy, the only way to diagnose constrictive bronchiolitis. Source: Internet

In other cases it takes on a more ascetic tendency to view material existence negatively, which then becomes more extreme when materiality, and the human body, is perceived as evil and constrictive, a deliberate prison for its inhabitants. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

constriction constriction device constriction ring syndrome constrictive consonant constrictive pericarditis constrictively