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restrictives

restrictives is the plural of restrictive.

Meaning of restrictive

Noun

restrictive (plural restrictives)

  1. A clause that narrows the meaning of a noun or noun phrase.
    • […] a couple of further differences between restrictive and non-restrictive relative clauses: (1) in contrast with restrictives, the wh-phrase in non-restrictives cannot be ellipted; […]2013, Noel Burton-Roberts, Analysing Sentences, page 210

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Questions about restrictives

What is restrictives the plural of?
Restrictives is the plural of restrictive.

Words near restrictives in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: restrictives (page history and authors); restrictive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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