Permissive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERMISSIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• permitting; granting leave or liberty
• allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behaviour
• allowed but not obligatory; optional
• allowing a biological or biochemical process to occur
• allowing the infection and replication of viruses
• Permitting; granting leave or liberty.
• Permitted; tolerated; suffered.
• not preventive
• granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline
• denoting a path available for public use by the landowner's consent, not as a legal right of way
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• granted on sufferanc; tolerated

Words related to PERMISSIVE

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Words that contain PERMISSIVE

permissively22 nonpermissive20 permissiveness21 permissivenesse22 permissivenesses23

How to use PERMISSIVE in a sentence

• While the law would eventually require to be obligatory, with regard to the absolutely unfit, it would require to be permissive in all other cases.
• The permissive element in Divine administration is here clearly distinguished.
• At present the officers are known at best to be only permissive, and on their good behavior.
• They set up, in fact, a little Court, but lived a quiet, unostentatious life, so far as it was diplomatic and permissive.

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