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restrictively

restrictively adverb: in a restrictive manner.

Adverb

restrictively (comparative more restrictively, superlative most restrictively)

  1. In a restrictive manner.
    • Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend, deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat, something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society.1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; →ISBN), Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53

Forms of restrictively

comparativemore restrictively
superlativemost restrictively

Origin of restrictively

From restrictive + -ly.

Questions about restrictively

What does restrictively mean?
Restrictively means in a restrictive manner.
What part of speech is restrictively?
Restrictively is an adverb.

Words near restrictively in the dictionary

  1. restrictive practice
  2. restrictive practices
  3. restrictive programming
  4. restrictive relative clause
  5. restrictive relative clauses
  6. restrictively
  7. restrictiveness
  8. restrictives
  9. restrictivism
  10. restrictivist
  11. restrictivists

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