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restrictive

adj
/ɹɪˈstɹɪktɪv/

Etymology

From Middle French restrictif. Morphologically restrict + -ive.

  1. borrowed from restrictus
  2. suffixed as restrictive — “restrict + ive”

Definitions

  1. Confining, limiting, containing within defined bounds.

    • The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
    • The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).

  2. limiting free and easy bodily movement.

  3. A clause that narrows the meaning of a noun or noun phrase.

    • […] a couple of further differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses: (1) in contrast with restrictives, the wh-phrase in non-restrictives cannot be ellipted; […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at restrictive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at restrictive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at restrictive

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA