Words and phrases that have a meaning related to permissive: (124 results)
Antonyms:
preventative, preventive, unpermissive
Often used in the same context:
restrictive, lenient, lax, tolerant, puritanical, intolerant, proscriptive, censorious, laissez faire, prudish, prescriptive, strict, rigid, illiberal, looser, exclusionary, secularized, stringent, enlightened, collectivistic, liberal, friendlier, deferential, moralistic, benign, draconian, promiscuous, absolutist, dogmatic, onerous, unfriendly, favorable, illegalize, ambiguous, explicit, militaristic, reactionary, politically correct, constrictive, hospitable, paternalistic, secularised, harsher, licentious, relaxed, egalitarian, freewheeling, antagonistic, amenable, equalitarian, misogynous, gentler, doctrinaire, prevalent, antithetical, lawless, hostile, hypocritical, judgmental, repressive, regulative, confiscatory, anarchic, freer, conformist, partitionist, isolationist, imperialistic, problematic, coercive, antipathetic, anarchistic, fascistic, unwelcoming, constrained, quiescent, textualist, irreligious, westernized, hierarchical, ambivalent, anachronistic, oppressive, mutable, acquiescent, inflexible, unconstrained, professionalized, anomic, confrontational, analogous, interventionist, uncompassionate, politer, cavalier, circumscribed, deontological, universalistic, acceptable, formalistic, wrongheaded, temperate, discriminatory, undemocratic, punitive, authoritarian, dictatorial, dehumanizing, inconsistent, nonauthoritarian, arbitrary, declaratory, facilitative, nondemocratic
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permissively
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Also try:admitting of, allowing of, bailable, indulgent, permitting of, soft
— Nouns for permissive: society, attitude, atmosphere, legislation, environment, temperature, parents, role, cells, attitudes, waste, more...
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