nonrestrictive
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- adjective
- /ˌnɒn.rɪˈstrɪk.tɪv/
- Specialized
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no restrictivo
- Wearing nonrestrictive clothing helps you move more freely during exercise.
- nonrestrictive clothing
Examples
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A nonrestrictive clause, which adds extra information, is set off by commas.
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An unskilled writer will sometimes construct a whole paragraph of sentences of this kind, using as connectives and, but, and less frequently, who, which, when, where, and while, these last in nonrestrictive senses.
Academic text (2005) -
This task force had produced a document that presented a nonrestrictive view of the term.
Academic text (1998) -
Which is nonrestrictive, meaning it is information that could be removed without destroying the meaning of the sentence.
Academic text (2002) -
Along about here is where I finally put my foot down (upon something besides sandburs), announcing to one and all that the cat in the family would no longer be on a nonrestrictive diet.
Fiction book (1999) -
The parameters of the challenge allow students to explore and experiment in a nonrestrictive environment, breaking away from the prescriptive methods employed in many CAD lessons.
Academic text (2011) -
In English, a nonrestrictive relative clause provides additional details without limiting the noun it describes.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A part of a sentence that gives more information about a noun but does not change which noun we mean
How Restrictive
Surface Forms
Morphology
nonrestrictive = restrictive (transparent) = non + restrict + ive
The productive prefix 'non-' simply negates the adjective 'restrictive', yielding 'not restrictive' with no meaning shift.
Etymology
Nonrestrictive breaks into non- meaning 'not' and restrictive meaning 'limiting', like the words restrict or restriction. So a nonrestrictive clause 'does not limit' the meaning of the noun but only adds extra information, and it is often set off by commas.