restrictive
Speech parts
1. restrictive - Noun
2. restrictive - Adjective
3. restrictive - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.
Astringent or styptic in effect.
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Examples
The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.
It is remarkable how fast and how effectively you can construct a nationality with a flag, a few speeches, and a national anthem; to this day I avoid the label "Lebanese," preferring the less restrictive "Levantine" designation.
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.
Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.