restrictive
adjective
tending or serving to restrict.
unrestrictive
-
a word derived from
restrictive.
Example Sentences
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Warsh said at the Jackson Hole symposium that the Fed policy remains unrestrictive given rapid business capex growth, much of it AI-related.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Restrictive and unrestrictive clauses were mostly interchangeable for the rest of us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2025
Gun rights advocates have for years held up Maine as an example of a place with unrestrictive gun laws and little violent crime.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Sweden adopted an unrestrictive approach, offering guidelines to its citizens but leaving compliance up to them.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2020
However desirable it may seem to confine who and which to unrestrictive clauses, they are not confined to them in actual practice.
From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg
