limiting

adjective

  1. 1

    restricting the scope or freedom of action

  2. 2

    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

noun

  1. 1

    the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase

Synonyms

Also useful for “limiting”:Unscrambler