Definitions for permissive

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permissive per·mis·sive

Spelling: [per-mis-iv]

IPA: /pərˈmɪs ɪv/

Permissive is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 367 anagrams from letters in permissive (eeiimprssv).

Definitions for permissive

adjective

1. habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
2. granting or denoting permission:
3. optional.
4. Genetics. (of a cell) permitting replication of a strand of DNA that could be lethal, as a viral segment or mutant gene.

Origin of permissive

1425-75; late Middle English; see permission, -ive; compare French permissif

Examples for permissive

Therefore the poet is not any permissive potentate, but is emperor in his own right.

“It is permissive,” the former student adviser told The Daily Beast.

The program is medically based, not permissive as in states like Colorado that are experiencing the consequences of legalization.

I always felt safe,” said one former Columbia student who dabbled in selling, calling the campus a “permissive environment.

She smiled at last, with permissive recognition, and Gates came forward.

Therefore the consequent will of God, which has sin for its object, is only permissive.

Just as important, however, is a permissive external environment.

Instead of being compulsory the Act, should an Act be passed, was to be permissive.

Edward and Alexandra were the most permissive royal parents.

There is precisely the case wherein the will of a wise mind is only permissive.