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My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
Maggie Stiefvater

Meaning of "permissive" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PERMISSIVE

permissive  [pəˈmɪsɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERMISSIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Permissive is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PERMISSIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Permissive

When a cell or host is defined as permissive in virology, it refers to the fact that the virus is able to circumvent host defenses and is able to replicate. Usually this occurs when the virus has modulated one or several of the host cellular intrinsic defenses, and the host immune system. The permissive state of a host has now been determined to be the primary factor in determining whether a virus will cause pathological symptoms in a host.

Definition of permissive in the English dictionary

The first definition of permissive in the dictionary is tolerant; lenient. Other definition of permissive is indulgent in matters of sex. Permissive is also granting permission.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERMISSIVE


abrasive
əˈbreɪsɪv
admissive
ədˈmɪsɪv
decisive
dɪˈsaɪsɪv
demissive
dɪˈmɪsɪv
dismissive
dɪsˈmɪsɪv
emissive
ɪˈmɪsɪv
intermissive
ˌɪntəˈmɪsɪv
invasive
ɪnˈveɪsɪv
irremissive
ˌɪrɪˈmɪsɪv
missive
ˈmɪsɪv
nonpermissive
ˌnɒnpəˈmɪsɪv
omissive
əʊˈmɪsɪv
persuasive
pəˈsweɪsɪv
pervasive
pɜːˈveɪsɪv
photoemissive
ˌfəʊtəʊɪˈmɪsɪv
promissive
prəˈmɪsɪv
remissive
rɪˈmɪsɪv
submissive
səbˈmɪsɪv
transmissive
trænzˈmɪsɪv
unsubmissive
ˌʌnsəbˈmɪsɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERMISSIVE

permed
permethrin
Permian
permie
permillage
permissibility
permissible
permissibleness
permissibly
permission
permissively
permissiveness
permit
permittance
permitted
permittee
permitter
permitting
permittivities
permittivity

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERMISSIVE

aggressive
comprehensive
compressive
depressive
excessive
expressive
immunosuppressive
impressive
inexpressive
massive
obsessive
oppressive
passive
passive-aggressive
possessive
progressive
recessive
regressive
repressive
successive
suppressive

Synonyms and antonyms of permissive in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PERMISSIVE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «permissive» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of permissive

Translation of «permissive» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERMISSIVE

Find out the translation of permissive to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of permissive from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «permissive» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

宽容
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

permisiva
570 millions of speakers

English

permissive
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनुमोदक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تساهلا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

разрешительный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

permissiva
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনুমতিসূচক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

permissif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Permisif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

permissiv
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

寛容な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

허용
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Permissive
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cho phép
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அனுமதியளிக்கும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परवानगी देणारा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

müsamahakâr
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

permissivo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

liberalne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дозвільний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

permisiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανεκτική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

permissiewe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

permissiv
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

givende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of permissive

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERMISSIVE»

The term «permissive» is quite widely used and occupies the 42.917 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERMISSIVE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about permissive

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6 QUOTES WITH «PERMISSIVE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word permissive.
1
Curt Flood
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.
2
Roy Jenkins
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society.
3
Chuck Norris
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
4
Jenny Shipley
I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.
5
Huston Smith
The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.
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Maggie Stiefvater
My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERMISSIVE»

Discover the use of permissive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to permissive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Permissive Society: America, 1941-1965
The Permissive Society points to the emergence of a liberalizing impulse during the 1950s, with a traditionalist moral framework giving way to a less authoritarian approach to moral issues.
Alan Petigny, 2009
2
Permissive Residents: West Papuan Refugees Living in Papua ...
This book offers another frame through which to view the event of the outrigger landing of 43 West Papuans in Australia in 2006.
Diana Glazebrook, 2008
3
Evaluation of Traffic Signal Displays for ...
ment, placement, and permissive indications. The variance in implementation has been consistent with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD ) because the manual historically provided limited guidance (1). The FHWA ...
‎2003
4
Transnational flows and permissive polities
This volume offers key insights for students of globalization and transnationality and policy relevance for development practitioners, governments, and NGOs.
Barak Kalir, Malini Sur, 2015
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Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society
Frank Mort uncovers the ways in which they transformed national culture. Soho and Notting Hill became beacons for anxieties over the changing character of sex in the city and the cultural impact of decolonization.
Frank Mort, 2010
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From the Reformation to the Permissive Society: A Miscellany ...
Provides for a selection of texts, together with scholarly introductions, from one of the world's great private libraries, covering a period from Elizabeth I to the Church's involvement in homosexual law reform.
Melanie Barber, Gabriel Sewell, Stephen Taylor, 2010
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Protective Relay Principles
14.9.1 Permissive Overreaching Scheme Permissive overreaching schemes are shown in Figure 14.16. Each terminal of a permissive overreaching scheme needs to be equipped with protective relays, transmitters that send permissive trip  ...
Anthony F. Sleva, 2009
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Pristine Transfinite Graphs and Permissive Electrical Networks
Such paths will be called "permissive." Thus, we seek a means of choosing transfinite nodes to conform with those permissive paths. We do so in this chapter . The resulting structures will be called "permissive networks." Here is the basic idea: ...
Armen H. Zemanian, 2001
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Censorship and the permissive society: British cinema and ...
Anthony Aldgate shows, however, that censorship altered the progression of the artistic and creative renaissance of this period, and how the process brought changes in the works of writers such as John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney, Alan ...
Anthony Aldgate, 1995
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The New Permissive Use of Force - A Window for Change in ...
The aim of this thesis is therefore twofold: I intend to contribute with this work to the debate whether since reunification change or continuity prevails in German foreign policy, while I additionally attempt a causal analyses of new ...
Lutz Lindenau, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERMISSIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term permissive is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rick Perry: Movie Theaters Should Not Be Gun-Free Zones
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, whose home state has relatively permissive gun laws, has pitched himself as a way to bridge rural hunting ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
2
'I am Alena': life as a trans woman where survival means living as …
In Atlanta's more permissive environment she began to build a life as a woman. She had a job working in a call center, rented her own small ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Craig Biggio's Hall of Fame career marked by defensive flexibility
Filter for a mininum 30 games at each C, 2B, and CF -- a pretty permissive standard, it should be noted -- and you get one player: Biggio. «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
4
Robert Samuelson: Triumph of Medicare, Medicaid tarnished
Although these permissive policies were later scrapped, the underlying fee-for-service system, which pays providers for performing more ... «Worcester Telegram, Jul 15»
5
Political Paddock: Jack Conway has a good hand, but Matt Bevin …
... believing their president is out to get them and that the country they love is becoming a permissive, socialist haven, are screaming at the top ... «Lexington Herald Leader, Jul 15»
6
7 Indian Child Geniuses Who Have Amazed India - All In The Last …
Kautilya, the Arthashastra's author, casually accepts women with multiple husbands, and also is permissive of divorce, widow remarriage, and ... «Indiatimes.com, Jul 15»
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Standing desks at schools: The solution to the childhood obesity …
... of learning spaces are now beginning to talk about how these desks will transform classrooms into “activity-permissive environments.”. «Santa Fe New Mexican, Jul 15»
8
Cash woes for Rand Paul's hybrid candidacy
Republicans rightly argued in the wake of the Citizens United ruling that the Supreme Court's permissive approach to campaign finance would ... «OCRegister, Jul 15»
9
The NZ Initiative's Khyaati Acharya says Labour's 'circus act' will only …
... closely resembling closed economies like China and Jordan rather than the UK and Canada, which have much more permissive regimes. «Interest.co.nz, Jul 15»
10
Henderson County Traffic Advisory
Westbound traffic on Kentucky 351/Zion Road will be getting a protected/permissive left-turn phase. This is the first location in the Henderson ... «SurfKY News, Jul 15»

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