The Collaborative International Dictionary
Constrictive \Con*strict"ive\, a. Serving or tending to bind or constrict.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Late Latin constrictivus, from Latin constrictus (see constrict).
Wiktionary
a. That constricts, or is accompanied by constriction
WordNet
adj. (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom [syn: constricting, narrowing]
restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: confining, constraining, limiting, restricting]
Usage examples of "constrictive".
The Acidhead stopped his breast-feeding and she put her rack of sweater meat back in the constrictive apparatus.
Jinzler had discarded his earlier layered robe-tunic in favor of something simpler and less constrictive, and Luke found himself wondering if the older man was expecting dirt and close quarters aboard the Dreadnaught or whether he was just tiring of his ambassadorial play-acting.
The waste steam leaving the cylinders passes through a constrictive blast pipe, and jets out.