Adjective: restrictive ri'strik-tiv
- Serving to restrict
"teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments"
- (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports
"The restrictive tariffs were designed to protect domestic industries"
See also: confining, constraining, constrictive, inhibitory, limiting, protective, regulative, regulatory, repressing, repressive, sumptuary, suppressive
Antonym: unrestrictive
Encyclopedia: Restrictive