permissive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective not preventive
  2. adjective granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline
    • direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive
    • permissive parents

WordNet


Per*mis"sive adjective
Definitions
  1. Permitting; granting leave or liberty. "By his permissive will." Milton.
  2. Permitted; tolerated; suffered. Milton.

Webster 1913