Hyphenation of permissive

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word permissive? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

per-mis-sive

Definitions of permissive:

1.	Not preventive
2.	Granting or inclined or able to grant permission Not strict in discipline Direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive Permissive parents

Synonyms of permissive:

adj	permissive, admitting of, allowing of, permitting of, bailable
adj	permissive, indulgent, lax, lenient, soft

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.