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")

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