restrictively

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adverb

In a restrictive manner.

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Meanings

adverbrestrictively (comparative more restrictively, superlative most restrictively)

comparative more restrictively · superlative most restrictively

  1. In a restrictive manner.

    Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend, deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat, something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society.

    1974: Plato (author) and Desmond Lee (translator), The Republic (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; →ISBN), Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53

Origin

From restrictive + -ly.

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APA

restrictively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/restrictively

MLA

“restrictively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/restrictively. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “restrictively,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/restrictively.

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