'Limiting' definitions:
Definition of 'limiting'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting]
adjective
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
The grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase [syn: modification, qualifying, limiting]
Definition of 'Limiting'
From: GCIDE
- Limit \Lim"it\ (l[i^]m"[i^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Limited; p. pr. & vb. n. Limiting.] [F. limiter, L. limitare, fr. limes, limitis, limit; prob. akin to limen threshold, E. eliminate; cf. L. limus sidelong.] To apply a limit to, or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe, or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word. [1913 Webster]
- Limiting parallels (Astron.), those parallels of latitude between which only an occultation of a star or planet by the moon, in a given case, can occur. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'limiting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Limiting'
- Limit,
- Limitable,
- Limitate,
- Limitation,
- Limited,
- Limitedly,
- Limiter,
- Limitive,
- limits,
- off limits,
- to the limit,
- Elastic limit,
- Jail limits,
- Limited company,
- Limited liability,
- Limited partnership,
- Limiting parallels,
- Prison limits,
- Statute of limitations,
- age limit,
- auto limitation,
- city limit,
- city limits,
- debt limit,
- go the limit,
- limit point,
- limited audit,
- limited edition,
- limited review,
- limited war,
- lower limit,
- off-limits,
- speed limit,
- time limit,
- upper limit,
- Lunar ecliptic limit,
- Solar ecliptic limit,
- To know one's own limitations,
- lower-limit,
- self-limited,
- sex-limited,
- strategic arms limitation talks,
- the three-mile limit,
- three-mile limit