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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Restrictive \Re*strict"ive\, adjective [Cf. F. restrictif.]
1. Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.
2. Astringent or styptic in effect. [Obs.] --Wiseman. --{Re*strict"ive*ly}, adverb -- {Re*strict"ive*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
restrictive
adjective
1: serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments" [ant: {unrestrictive}]
2: (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "restrictive": altering, assuasive, bounding, choking, confining, constrictive, contrary, counterproductive, cramping, crosswise, defining, definitive, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, extenuating, extenuatory, hindering, hindersome, in the way, inadmissible, inhibiting, inhibitive, insular, interrupting, interruptive, lenitive, limitary, limitative, limiting, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying, modulatory, narrow, narrowing, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, palliative, parochial, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, repressive, restricting, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, separative, snobbish, softening, stifling, strangling, suppressive, troublesome, xenophobic
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