Limiting - Definition

adj 1: restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn:
confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting,
restricting]
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"
n 1: the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies
the meaning of the phrase [syn: modification,
qualifying, limiting]