10 Letter Words for Permissive
impressive, permissive
9 Letter Words for Permissive
remissive
8 Letter Words for Permissive
emissive, emprises, impreses, impresse, miseries, misserve, pismires, premises, pressive, previses, riempies, spiremes, vermises, viperess
7 Letter Words for Permissive
empires, empress, emprise, epimers, esprise, imprese, impress, ivresse, merises, merisis, messier, messire, miseres, missier, missive, permiss, pismire, premise, pressie, prieves, primsie, privies, remises, revises, riempie, sempres, serimpi, simpers, spireme, spirems, verisms, vespers, visiers
6 Letter Words for Permissive
emesis, emissi, empire, epimer, eprise, espier, espies, essive, impers, impies, irises, merses, messer, mieves, misere, misers, missee, peiser, perses, persis, perves, pieris, pisser, preses, prieve, primes, prisms, reises, reives, remise, remiss, repses, revies, revise, rieves, semies, semper, series, serves, severs, sevier, sevres, siever, sieves, simper, sipers, sivers, smiris, speers, speirs, speise, sperms, sperse, spiers, spirem, spires, sprees, verism, vermes, vermis, verses, vesper, vipers, visier
5 Letter Words for Permissive
eemis, eimer, emirs, epris, erses, imper, impis, isere, issei, ivies, meers, meres, meris, merse, meses, messe, meves, mieve, mires, mirvs, miser, mises, peers, peres, peris, perms, perse, perve, pervs, piers, prees, press, pries, prime, primi, prims, prism, priss, reive, revie, riems, rieve, rimes, rimpi, ripes, rises, risps, rives, seems, seeps, seers, seirs, seise, seism, semes, semie, semis, seres, serve, sever, sieve, simis, simps, siper, sipes, sires, siris, siver, smeer, smees, smirs, speer, speir, sperm, spier, spies, spire, spise, spivs, spree, veeps, veers, vepse, verse, viers, viper, vises, visie
4 Letter Words for Permissive
eire, emer, emes, emir, eres, erie, eris, erme, erse, eses, esse, ever, eves, impi, imps, impv, ipse, ires, iris, irpe, isis, isms, meer, mere, meri, merv, mese, mess, meve, mips, mire, miri, mirs, mirv, miss, peer, pees, pere, peri, perm, pers, perv, pess, pier, pies, pirs, pise, piss, pree, prem, pres, prie, prim, priv, psis, reem, rees, reim, rems, reps, resp, reve, revs, riem, ries, rime, rims, ripe, rips, rise, risp, rive, rsvp, seem, seep, seer, sees, seir, seis, seme, semi, seps, sere, sers, serv, sese, seve, sier, sime, simi, simp, sims, sipe, sips, sire, siri, sirs, sise, sisi, smee, smir, spie, spiv, sris, veep, veer, vees, veps, veri, vers, vese, vesp, vier, vies, vims, vips, vise, viss
3 Letter Words for Permissive
eer, eir, eme, emp, ems, epi, ere, ers, ese, esm, esp, esr, ess, eve, imi, imp, ipm, ipr, ips, ire, irs, ise, ism, ive, mee, mei, mer, mes, mir, mis, mri, mrs, mss, mvp, pee, per, pes, pie, pir, pis, pms, pre, prs, psi, ree, rei, rem, rep, res, rev, rie, rim, rip, riv, rms, rpm, rps, see, sei, sem, sep, ser, sie, sim, sip, sir, sis, sps, sri, sse, ssp, vee, vei, ver, vie, vii, vim, vip, vis, vss
Definitions for Permissive
[1] habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid.
[2] granting or denoting permission: a permissive nod.
[3] optional.
[4] Genetics . (of a cell) permitting replication of a strand of DNA that could be lethal, as a viral segment or mutant gene.
[5] tolerant; lenient permissive parents
[6] indulgent in matters of sex a permissive society
[7] granting permission
[8] archaic not obligatory
Words related to Permissive
open-minded, indulgent, lax, tolerant, agreeable, forbearing, free, liberal, permitting, susceptible, acquiescent, allowing, easy-going, latitudinarian
Words nearby Permissive
permic, permie, permillage, permissible, permission, permissive, permissivism, permit, permittivity, permonosulfuric acid, permutate
Origin of Permissive
1425–75; late Middle English; see permission, -ive; compare French permissif
Other words from Permissive
per·mis·sive·ly , adverb
per·mis·sive·ness , noun
non·per·mis·sive , adjective
non·per·mis·sive·ly , adverb
non·per·mis·sive·ness , noun
un·per·mis·sive , adjective
Synonyms for Permissive
indulgent, lax, open-minded, tolerant, acquiescent, agreeable, allowing, approving, easy-going, forbearing, free, latitudinarian, liberal, permitting, susceptible
