restrictive

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

restrictive
    adj 1: serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape
           restrictive home environments" [ant: {unrestrictive}]
    2: (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting
       imports

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Restrictive \Re*strict"ive\, a. [Cf. F. restrictif.]
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   1. Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a
      restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.
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   2. Astringent or styptic in effect. [Obs.] --Wiseman.
      [1913 Webster] --{Re*strict"ive*ly}, adv. --
      {Re*strict"ive*ness}, n.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

67 Moby Thesaurus words for "restrictive":
      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