Antonym: compelling. Similar words: permission, permissible, intermission, submissive, submissively, near miss, epidermis, missing. Meaning: [pər'mɪsɪv /pə-] 
adj. 1. not preventive 2. granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline.
adj. 1. not preventive 2. granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline. 
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1. He claims that society has been far too permissive towards drug taking.
2. It's a very permissive school where the children are allowed to do whatever they like.
3. He is a product of the permissive society of the 1960s.
4. He had a very permissive upbringing.
5. We live in a permissive society.
6. The Fifties were not a permissive era.
7. Would you trust him/her to a permissive relationship with contemporary television?
8. Earlier, permissive legislation had already enabled some authorities to innovate in services for the disabled.
9. The permissive society of the 60's and 70's was not yet dreamed of.
10. Police powers were permissive in dealing with the lower classes.
11. Fat Vince doubles as the popular and permissive assistant-manager of a snooker hall in Victoria.
12. The tenor of the 1976 Act is permissive: a licence should be granted unless good cause is shown justifying refusal.
13. For he grew up before the permissive society and remembers his adolescence.
14. There was a generally growing permissive attitude, although I don't think that the attitude towards homosexuality was particularly permissive.
15. They must be accorded a permissive rather than a causal role.
16. Permissive parents, on the other hand, are too lax about guiding their children.
17. These powers were permissive, and in most of Britain urban sprawl and ribbon development continued more or less unabated.
18. In the permissive society of the 1960s anything was possible.
19. Time and again a permissive present is contrasted with the not too distant past.
20. Direct priMary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive.
21. Confusion and uncertainty are the major characteristics of the permissive society according to the conservative-historians.
21. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and make good sentences.
22. Those who advocated reform argued consistently that it ought not to be interpreted as a permissive move for two reasons.
23. It's not always true that young people have a more permissive attitude towards sex.
24. Certainly, there is little strong evidence of an unambiguous growth in permissive child-rearing practice, at least in the United Kingdom.
25. The suspect has little opportunity for demonstrating his or her innocence against any one of a medley of permissive street powers.
26. The students on his floor came from backgrounds more affluent and permissive than his own.
27. It is also possible to combine a rejecting and an authoritarian attitude, or a loving and a permissive one.
28. For both the conservative- and liberal-historians legislative change is of central importance to an understanding of the permissive society.
29. The grey streets of London and a Western society on which the permissive 1960s had made its mark were small compensation.
30. Nothing could be more reinforcing to a literary establishment which saw itself as amiable and permissive.
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