| Restrictive 1. (a.) Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade. 2. (a.) Astringent or styptic in effect. Thesaurus Entries altering, assuasive, bounding, choking, confining, constrictive, contrary, counterproductive, cramping, crosswise, defining, definitive, ethnocentric, exceptional, excluding, exclusive, exclusory, extenuating, extenuatory, hindering, hindersome, in the way, inadmissible, inhibiting, inhibitive, insular, interrupting, interruptive, lenitive, limitary, limitative, limiting, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying, modulatory, narrow, narrowing, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent, occlusive, palliative, parochial, preclusive, prescriptive, preventive, prohibitive, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, repressive, restricting, seclusive, segregative, select, selective, separative, snobbish, softening, stifling, strangling, suppressive, troublesome, xenophobic |