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restrictive

[ri-strik-tiv]

adjective

tending or serving to restrict.

expressing or implying restriction or limitation of application, as terms, expressions, etc.

Grammar. limiting the meaning of a modified element: a restrictive adjective. Compare descriptive (def. 2b).

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English < Middle French restrictif < Latin restrict(us) (see restrict) + Middle French -if -ive

Related forms

re·stric·tive·ly, adverb

re·stric·tive·ness, noun

un·re·stric·tive, adjective

un·re·stric·tive·ly, adverb

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Restrictive is always a great word to know.

So is pilcrow. Does it mean:

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a paragraph mark.

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restrictive (rɪˈstrɪktɪv)

—*adj*
1.	restricting or tending to restrict
2.	grammar denoting a relative clause or phrase that restricts the number of possible referents of its antecedent. The relative clause in Americans who live in New York is restrictive; the relative clause in Americans, who are generally extrovert, is nonrestrictive

re'strictively

—*adv*

re'strictiveness

—n

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