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Showing words for PERMISSIVE using the English dictionary

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