Words and phrases that have a meaning related to restrictive: (127 results)
Antonyms:
unrestrictive
Often used in the same context:
onerous, stringent, permissive, draconian, constrictive, prescriptive, strict, rigid, burdensome, lenient, proscriptive, cumbersome, inflexible, laxer, exclusionary, looser, problematic, tighter, punitive, discriminatory, archaic, repressive, overburdensome, constrained, expensive, harsher, unworkable, illiberal, nonrestrictive, intrusive, oppressive, anachronistic, inhibitive, outdated, coercive, obtrusive, unfriendly, dirigiste, counterproductive, desirable, ambiguous, distortive, arbitrary, restricted, incompatible, risky, puritanical, relaxed, regimented, friendlier, antiquated, prohibitive, undesirable, unrestrictive, formalistic, liberalizing, legalistic, selective, enforceable, disadvantageous, noncomplying, prohibitory, inequitable, laissez faire, accommodative, explicit, advantageous, vague, censorious, flexible, freer, mandatory, protectionist, complicated, opaque, inefficient, discriminative, harmful, unfree, exclusionist, regulated, unfair, outmoded, illegalize, costly, invasive, palatable, unpractical, confiscatory, confusing, circumscribed, regressive, tougher, retrogressive, confrontational, incompliant, dogmatic, detrimental, paternalistic, inconvenient, subjective, fragmented, stricter, liberalized, inclusionary, undemocratic, inconsistent, lax, nondiscriminatory, regulative
Appears in the definition of:
hem in, inhibitory, interracially, repressing, repressive, restrictively
Synonyms:
Also try:confining, constraining, inhibiting, limiting, protective, regulating, regulatory, restricting, sumptuary, suppressive
— Nouns for restrictive: practices, policy, policies, covenants, measures, legislation, laws, environment, clauses, conditions, rules, more...
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