Usually means: Allowing or tolerating a wide range.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word permissive:

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  1. permissive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. permissive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. permissive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. permissive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. permissive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Permissive, permissive: Wordnik
  7. permissive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. permissive: Wiktionary
  9. permissive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. permissive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. permissive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. permissive: Dictionary.com
  13. permissive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. permissive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Permissive (film), Permissive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Permissive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. permissive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. permissive: Rhymezone
  19. permissive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. permissive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. permissive: Free Dictionary
  22. permissive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. permissive: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. permissive: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. permissive: Legal dictionary

(Note: See permissively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Giving permission, or predisposed to give it; lenient.
adjective:  (of a footpath, bridleway or similar) Open to the public by permission of the landowner.
adjective:  (biology) That allows the replication of viruses.

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