restrictive.

Placing limits on what can happen or who can participate.

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Words that belong together

• restrictive rule
• restrictive conditions

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Restrictive conditions reduced participation in the program.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Comparative more restrictive; superlative most restrictive when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, qualification. Commonness: moderately common.