permissive
pronunciation
How to pronounce permissive in British English:
UK [pəˈmɪsɪv]
How to pronounce permissive in American English:
US [pərˈmɪsɪv]
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- Adjective:
- not preventive
- granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline
Word Origin
- permissive (adj.)
- c. 1600, "allowing to pass through," from Old French permissif, from Latin permiss-, past participle stem of permittere "to let go, let pass, let loose" (see permit (v.)). In sense of "tolerant, liberal" it is first recorded 1956; by 1966 it had definite overtones of sexual freedom. Earlier it meant "permitted, allowed" (early 15c.). Related: Permissively; permissiveness.
Antonym
Example
- 1. We are a very permissive household .
- 2. It is a permissive society where users borrow , append and mix their data freely with one another .
- 3. They cannot afford to be permissive parents .
- 4. Still , the japanese are not shy about their fetishes and the law takes a permissive attitude to commercial sex .
- 5. Blaming the permissive 1960s is nothing new , but this is not yet another screed against the decline in education .