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Where does “restrictive” come from?

Restrictive comes from Middle French restrictif, meaning tending to restrict or limit.

restrictive (English): Confining, limiting, containing within defined...

Definitions

  1. Confining, limiting, containing within defined...

Ancestry of “restrictive”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchrestrictif—

Words derived from “restrictive”

  • restrictiveness
  • restrictively
  • nonrestrictive
  • unrestrictive
  • restrictivism
  • restrictivist
  • unrestrictively
  • unrestrictiveness
  • nonrestrictiveness
  • nonrestrictivist
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