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limiting
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun limiting has 1 sense
- limiting(n = noun.linkdef) modification, qualifying - the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase; Array is a kind of grammatical relation
has particulars: restrictiveness, apposition
Adjective limiting has 2 senses
- limiting(s = adj.all) confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting - restricting the scope or freedom of action; Array
- limiting(s = adj.all) Array - 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"
THESAURUS
limiting
altering, assuasive, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding, caudal, claustral, coastal, conclusive, confining, cramping, defining, definitive, determinant, determinative, determining, enclosing, endmost, eventual, exclusive, extenuating, extenuatory, extreme, farthest, final, fringing, frontier, last, lenitive, limbic, liminal, limit, limitary, limitative, littoral, marginal, mitigating, mitigative, mitigatory, modificatory, modifying, modulatory, narrowing, palliative, parietal, polar, qualificative, qualificatory, qualifying, restricting, restrictive, rimming, skirting, softening, surrounding, tail, terminal, terminating, terminative, threshold, ultimate
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