Antonyms of adj unrestrictive
1 sense of unrestrictive
Sense 1
unrestrictive (vs. restrictive) -- (not tending to restrict)
restrictive (vs. unrestrictive) -- (serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments")
=> confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting -- (restricting the scope or freedom of action)
=> inhibitory, repressive, repressing -- (restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline")
=> limiting -- (strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; "the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause")
=> regulative, regulatory -- (restricting according to rules or principles; "a regulatory gene")
=> sumptuary -- (regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior; "sumptuary laws discouraging construction of large houses on small plots"; "sumptuary laws forbidding gambling")
=> suppressive -- (tending to suppress; "the government used suppressive measures to control the protest")
Similarity of adj unrestrictive
1 sense of unrestrictive
Sense 1
unrestrictive (vs. restrictive) -- (not tending to restrict)
=> emancipative -- (tending to set free)
=> nonrestrictive -- (not limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; "the nonrestrictive clause in `I always buy his books, which have influenced me greatly,' refers to his books generally and adds an additional fact about them")