English-Thai Dictionary

permissive

ADJ ซึ่ง อนุญาต  easygoing restrictive strict intolerant sueng-ar-nu-yad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PERMISSIVE

a.Granting liberty; allowing. 1. Granted; suffered without hinderance.
Thus I emboldened spake, and freedom used
Permissive, and acceptance found.

 

PERMISSIVELY

adv. By allowance; without prohibition or hinderance.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PERMISSIVE

PERMISSIVE Per *mis "sive, a.

 

1. Permitting; granting leave or liberty. "By his permissive will. " Milton.

 

2. Permitted; tolerated; suffered. Milton.

 

PERMISSIVELY

PERMISSIVELY Per *mis "sive *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a permissive manner.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

permissive

per mis sive |pərˈmisiv pərˈmɪsɪv | ▶adjective 1 allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behavior: I was not a permissive parent | the permissive society of the 60s and 70s. 2 Law allowed but not obligatory; optional: the Hague Convention was permissive, not mandatory. 3 Biology allowing a biological or biochemical process to occur: the mutants grow well at the permissive temperature. • allowing the infection and replication of viruses. DERIVATIVES per mis sive ly adverb, per mis sive ness noun ORIGIN late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘tolerated, allowed ’): from Old French, or from medieval Latin permissivus, from permiss- ‘allowed, ’ from the verb permittere (see permit 1 ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

permissive

per |mis ¦sive |pəˈmɪsɪv | ▶adjective 1 allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behaviour: a permissive parent | the permissive society of the 60s and 70s. 2 Law allowed but not obligatory; optional: the Hague Convention was permissive, not mandatory. • denoting a path available for public use by the landowner's consent, not as a legal right of way. 3 Biology allowing a biological or biochemical process to occur: the mutants grow well at the permissive temperature. DERIVATIVES permissively adverb, permissiveness noun ORIGIN late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘tolerated, allowed ’): from Old French, or from medieval Latin permissivus, from permiss- ‘allowed ’, from the verb permittere (see permit 1 ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

permissive

permissive adjective our parents were far less permissive than we are: liberal, broad-minded, open-minded, free, free and easy, easygoing, live-and-let-live, latitudinarian, laissez-faire, libertarian, tolerant, forbearing, indulgent, lenient; overindulgent, lax, soft. ANTONYMS intolerant, strict.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

permissive

permissive adjective the permissive society of the 1960s: liberal, broad-minded, open-minded, non-restrictive, free, free and easy, easy-going, live-and-let-live, latitudinarian, laissez-faire, libertarian, unprescriptive, unrestricted, tolerant, forbearing, indulgent, lenient; overindulgent, lax, soft. ANTONYMS intolerant, strict.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

permissive

per mis sive /pə r mɪ́sɪv /形容詞 1 ｟時にけなして ｠寛容な, 寛大な ; (特に性に関して )自由放任の ▸ the permissive society (1960年代以降の )性に関して寛大な社会 2 〈法規などが 〉許す, 許可を与える ; 許された, 任意の .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞