restrictive

English

Etymology

From Middle French restrictif.

Morphologically restrict +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈstɹɪktɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪktɪv

Adjective

restrictive (comparative more restrictive, superlative most restrictive)

1. Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.
   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:

     The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 7:

     The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).

2. (Of clothing) limiting free and easy bodily movement.
   • 1980 December 6, Cindy Rizzo, Nancy Toder, “Jewish, Lesbian, Feminist, Psychologist, Author—All of the above and more”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 8:

     Some of them [teenagers] who will become lesbians clearly are being hit with the same kind of garbage which we got hit with in the fifties. There's been a real resurgence of that in terms of values and double standards and music. The clothes again — we're back to high heels and restrictive little femmy outfits.

Derived terms

• nonrestrictive
• restrictive covenant
• restrictive practice
• restrictive relative clause

 

Translations

confining; limiting

• Arabic: تَقْيِيدِيّ (taqyīdiyy)
• Belarusian: абме́жавальны (abmjéžavalʹny)
• Bulgarian: ограничи́телен (bg) (ograničítelen)
• Catalan: restrictiu
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 限制性 (zh) (xiànzhìxìng)

• Czech: omezující, restriktivní
• Danish: restriktive
• Dutch: beperkend (nl)
• Estonian: piiravate
• Finnish: rajoittava (fi)
• French: restrictif (fr)
• German: einschränkend (de), restriktiv (de)
• Greek: περιοριστική (el) (perioristikí)
• Hindi: प्रतिबंधात्मक (pratibandhātmak)
• Hungarian: korlátozó (hu)
• Indonesian: ketat (id)
• Italian: restrittivo (it)
• Japanese: 限定的 (げんていてき, genteiteki)
• Korean: 한정적인 (hanjeongjeog-in), 제한하는 (ko) (jehanhaneun)
• Latin: restrictivus
• Latvian: ierobežojošus
• Lithuanian: ribojančių
• Macedonian: ограничителен (ograničitelen), рестриктивен (restriktiven)
• Malay: ketat
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: restriktiv (no)

• Persian: محدود (fa) (mahdud)
• Polish: ograniczający, restrykcyjny (pl)
• Portuguese: restritivo
• Romanian: restrictiv (ro)
• Russian: ограничи́тельный (ru) (ograničítelʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рестриктиван

  Roman: restriktivan (sh)

• Slovak: obmedzujúci
• Slovene: omejevalen
• Spanish: restrictivo
• Thai: จำกัด (th) (jam-gàt)
• Turkish: kısıtlayıcı (tr)
• Ukrainian: обме́жувальний (obméžuvalʹnyj)
• Urdu: مؤکد
• Vietnamese: hạn chế (vi)

Noun

restrictive (plural restrictives)

1. (grammar) A clause that narrows the meaning of a noun or noun phrase.
   • 2013, Noel Burton-Roberts, Analysing Sentences, page 210:

     […] a couple of further differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses: (1) in contrast with restrictives, the wh-phrase in non-restrictives cannot be ellipted; […]

French

Adjective

restrictive

1. feminine singular of restrictif