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English

Adjective

Giving, or predisposed to give permission; lenient.

Translations

Dutch:

Finnish: salliva, suvaitsevainen

Anagrams

impressive

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Italian

Adjective

permissive

Feminine plural form of permissivo

Category:Italian adjective forms

fr:permissive io:permissive pl:permissive ru:permissive ta:permissive vi:permissive zh:permissive

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Permissive \Per*mis"sive\ (p[~e]r*m[i^]s"s[i^]v), a.
1. Permitting; granting leave or liberty. "By his permissive
will." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

2. Permitted; tolerated; suffered. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet permissive
adj 1: not preventive [ant: preventive]
2: granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict
in discipline; "direct primary legislation is largely
permissive rather than prescriptive"; "permissive parents"
[ant: unpermissive]

Moby Dictionary
accommodating , accordant , acquiescent , admissive , affable ,
affirmative , agreeable , agreeing , allowing , amiable , approving ,
assenting , benevolent , benign , benignant , broad-minded , careless ,
complaisant , compliable , compliant , conditional , consentient ,
consenting , content , culpably negligent , decent , derelict , eager ,
easy , easygoing , endorsing , favorable , freethinking , generous ,
gracious , imperative , impotent , imprecise , inadvertent ,
inattentive , indicative , indifferent , indulgent , jussive , kind ,
kindly , laissez-faire , latitudinarian , lax , lenient , liberal ,
libertarian , libertine , loose , mode , mood , neglectful , neglecting ,
negligent , noninterfering , nonprohibitive , nonrestrictive ,
nothing loath , obligative , obliging , off-guard , open-minded ,
optative , overindulgent , overly permissive , overpermissive ,
permitting , potential , procrastinating , prompt , ratifying , ready ,
relaxed , remiss , sanctioning , scamping , skimping , slack , slighting ,
slipshod , sloppy , slurring , soft , subjunctive , submissive ,
suffering , tolerant , tolerating , unbigoted , uncircumspect ,
ungrudging , unguarded , unloath , unprohibitive , unrefusing ,
unreluctant , unrestrained , unrigorous , unwary , unwatchful , weak ,
willing

PERMISSIVE. Allowed; that which may be done; as permissive waste, which is the permitting real estate to go to waste; when a tenant is bound to repair he is punishable for permissive waste. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2400. See Waste.