limiting

  • (s) restricting the scope or freedom of action confining, constraining, restricting, constrictive,
  • (s) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase
    • the restrictive clause in "Each made a list of the books that had influenced him" limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause

Nouns

  • (n) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase qualifying, modification,

Synonyms

qualifying modification confining constraining restricting constrictive

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