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. 61. Even in a permissive society, your request would not be permissible.
62. Unlike GCC, which is a monolithic compiler released under the GPL, the LLVM family of tools are more modular – and thanks to a more permissive BSD license, can be embedded in commercial tools.
63. To deal with this, the validator uses a highly modularized RELAX NG schema for XForms, which is integrated into a highly permissive host language.
More similar words: permission, permissible, intermission, submissive, submissively, near miss, epidermis, missing, missile, mission, emission, omission, submission, commission, admission, remission, admissible, commissioned, commissioner, missionary, decommission, readmission, massive, passive, inadmissible, transmission, excessive, recessive, impassive, passively.