permissive
- IPA[pəˈmɪsɪv]
英式
- allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behaviour;allowed but not obligatory; optional
- 釋義
形容詞
- 1. allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behaviour a permissive parent the permissive society of the 60s and 70s
- 2. allowed but not obligatory; optional the Hague Convention was permissive, not mandatory
- ▪ denoting a path available for public use by the landowner's consent, not as a legal right of way using permissive footpaths, you can visit meadows on both the banks of the river
- 3. allowing a biological or biochemical process to occur the mutants grow well at the permissive temperature
- ▪ allowing the infection and replication of viruses in vivo, viral expression is restricted but in vitro, cultured cells are permissive
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- IPA[pərˈmisiv]
美式
- allowing or characterized by great or excessive freedom of behavior: the permissive society of the 60s and 70s I was not a permissive parent
Oxford American Dictionary