permissive
per-MIS-ivadjMeaning allowing a great deal of freedom
Memory hook PERMISS-IVE: PERMISSION for everything. At Uncle Omar’s house you have permission for everything: pillow fights, pancakes at midnight, a fort in the living room. His house is permissive.
The camp had a permissive bedtime: campers could stay up as long as they were quiet.
In context The new school was far more permissive than her old one; students chose their own seats, ate snacks in class and could leave the room without asking.
Similar easygoing, liberal, tolerant, indulgent
Opposite strict, restrictive, stringent
From permit, from Latin permittere, “to let pass, allow”: per (through) + mittere (to let go).