permissive
adjEtymology
From French permissif.
- derived from permissif
Definitions
Giving permission, or predisposed to give it
Giving permission, or predisposed to give it; lenient.
- For neither Man nor Angel can discern / Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks / Invisible, except to God alone, / By his permissive will, through Heaven and Earth;
Open to the public by permission of the landowner.
- Many permissive paths work well and have done for a significant amount of time, enhancing or connecting our network of public footpaths, byways and bridleways, however unevenly distributed.
That allows the replication of viruses.
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A grammatical form indicating that an action is permitted by the speaker.
The neighborhood
- synonymavuncular
- synonymbroad-minded
- synonymcatholic
- synonymforbearing
- synonymindulgent
- synonymlatitudinarian
- synonymlaissez faire
- synonymlenient
- synonymliberal
- synonymopen-handed
- synonymopen-minded
- synonympermissible
- antonymbigoted
- antonymclosed-minded
- antonymclose-minded
- antonyminclement
- antonymintolerant
- antonymnarrow-minded
- antonymnonindulgent
- antonymnonpermissive
- antonymnontolerant
- antonympreachy
- antonymstrict
- antonymsevere
- neighborpermit
- neighborcarefree
- neighbordocile
- neighborhands off
- neighborimpartial
- neighbormerciful
- neighborpatient
- neighboruncomplaining
- neighborused to
- neighborlive and let live
- neighborbenevolent
- neighborcompassionate
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for permissive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA