English to French Meaning of permissive - permissif

Permissive :

permissif

adjective

permissif, reconnu, déclaré, profès, donné, commandé, accepté

Permissive :: permissifPermissively :: de façon permissivePermissiveness :: permissivité

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Definitions of permissive in English

Adjective(1) not preventive(2) granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline

Examples of permissive in English

(1) The court below read down the Act as permissive because the rules are permissive .(2) Although it is a benign inhabitant of mucosal surfaces in most individuals, it is a significant cause of infection when host or environmental factors are permissive .(3) These periods can be determined by using shift experiments, in which cultures are shifted between the permissive and restrictive temperature.(4) Parents can be very permissive ; they probably don't want confrontation.(5) It is true that many fundamental or Constitutional rights are, by their very nature, expressed in permissive , rather than mandatory terms.(6) Some critics even believed that he and his staff were actively promoting a more permissive society.(7) What is interesting is that you find one parent too permissive and the other too controlling.(8) Do you ever feel that society is becoming too permissive ?(9) Cells incubated at the permissive temperature demonstrated the typical ├ö├ç├┐hill and valley├ö├ç├û appearance.(10) The parents were permissive with or neglectful of their children, and the adolescents had developed a certain degree of independence.(11) Liberal writers from the permissive society of the 1960s are quoted and their opinions are taken to have been effective.(12) Two men, you might argue, played a much greater part in creating the permissive , liberal society, and neither of them were baby boomers.(13) The cells released at the permissive temperature entered S phase and continued to cycle.(14) The very immune cells that are activated to destroy the virus provide a permissive environment for virus propagation and persistence.(15) There's a difference between a tolerant society and a permissive society.(16) It is, however, to be noted that the power under s.14 is permissive and discretionary.

Related Phrases of permissive

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Synonyms

Adjective

1. liberal ::

libéral

2. broad-minded ::

tolérant

3. open-minded ::

ouvert d'esprit

4. free ::

gratuit

6. easygoing ::

facile à vivre

7. live-and-let-live ::

vivre et laisser vivre

8. latitudinarian ::

latitudinarian

9. laissez-faire ::

laissez-faire

10. libertarian ::

libertaire

11. tolerant ::

tolérant

13. indulgent ::

indulgent

14. lenient ::

indulgent

15. overindulgent ::

indulgentes

16. lax ::

relâché

17. soft ::

doux

Different Forms

permissive, permissively, permissiveness

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