English adjective: limiting | |||
1. | limiting restricting the scope or freedom of action | ||
Synonyms | confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting | ||
Similar | restrictive | ||
Antonyms | unrestrictive | ||
2. | limiting strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | ||
Samples | 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. | ||
Similar | restrictive | ||
Domain category | grammar | ||
Antonyms | unrestrictive | ||
English noun: limiting | |||
1. | limiting the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | ||
Synonyms | modification, qualifying | ||
Broader (hypernym) | grammatical relation | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | apposition, restrictiveness | ||