Crossword-Solution: RESTRICTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Restrictive | a. | Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade. |
| Restrictive | a. | Astringent or styptic in effect. |
We have 39 clues for the answer “RESTRICTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| protective of national interests by restricting imports | 1 answer |
| Opposite of laissez-faire | 1 answer |
| tying | 31 answers |
| inhibiting | 31 answers |
| retarding | 32 answers |
| bridling | 32 answers |
| coercive | 34 answers |
| obstructive | 35 answers |
| Hobbling | 35 answers |
| prohibitive | 36 answers |
| Selective | 37 answers |
| concluding | 41 answers |
| unpermissive | 47 answers |
| rigorist | 49 answers |
| ironhanded | 51 answers |
| Draconian | 51 answers |
| limiting | 52 answers |
| restraining | 55 answers |
| Inexorable | 56 answers |
| persuasive | 56 answers |
| stringent | 57 answers |
| relentless | 57 answers |
| unmerciful | 59 answers |
| Rigorous | 60 answers |
| uncharitable | 61 answers |
| Acrimonious | 61 answers |
| Inclement | 62 answers |
| unrelenting | 62 answers |
| Austere | 64 answers |
| Exacting | 66 answers |
| Barbarian | 66 answers |
| Stern | 68 answers |
| autocratic | 68 answers |
| Callous | 69 answers |
| Unbending | 72 answers |
| barbarous | 72 answers |
| Unkind | 73 answers |
| Adamant | 75 answers |
| CRUEL ___ | 78 answers |
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Sentences with RESTRICTIVE (5)
Industries using advanced technology or requiring sizable investment have been discouraged by a lack of local capital and restrictive Israeli policies.
After the war, the restrictive immigration laws which were passed kept the flow of European immigration low, and Northern industry continued to draw labor from the Southern rural pockets of poverty.
They maintain that no matter what, if any, restrictive mandates are placed on computer users, both are an invasion of privacy and violation of free speech have occurred.
And sometimes, Jane, I think that in your solicitude for his future you go a bit too far in your restrictive measures.
Again, a large element of people at the South favored manual training for the Negro because they were wise enough to see that the South was largely free from the restrictive influences of the Northern trades unions, and that such organizations would secure little hold in the South so long as the Negro kept abreast in intelligence and skill with the same class of people elsewhere.
Quotes with RESTRICTIVE (3)
Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking about; you misjudge me again: it is not because she is mad I hate her. If you were mad, do you think I should hate you?""I do indeed, sir.""Then you are mistaken, and you know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure, and if…
Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
Advancing towards a person’s dreams with confidence enables a person to move beyond restrictive boundaries and meet with uncommon success. Liberated from personal insecurities and eliminating useless second guessing enables a person to live an imagined life.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2020).