Associations to the word «Restrictive»

Wiktionary

RESTRICTIVE, adjective. Confining, limiting, containing with in defined bounds.
RESTRICTIVE COVENANT, noun. (legal) An agreement between parties limiting or restricting the use of land owned by one of the parties.
RESTRICTIVE PRACTICES, noun. (legal) (business) (pejorative) In antitrust law, practices that restrict other business, such as price fixing, market sharing, monopolizing, or attempting to monopolize markets.

Dictionary definition

RESTRICTIVE, adjective. Serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments".
RESTRICTIVE, adjective. (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King