restrictive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   limiting what someone can do, use, or access

   The license was too restrictive for an open-source project.

2. 2
   adj

   serving to restrict trade, movement, or behavior

   The city relaxed its most restrictive parking rules.

3. 3
   noun

   a grammatical element, especially a clause, that narrows the reference of a noun phrase

   In students who arrived late, the relative clause is a restrictive.

From Middle French restrictif, ultimately from Latin restringere (to bind back, restrain), plus -ive.

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