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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1644 1. a. functioning as a limit ; restrictive <limiting value> b. being an environmental factor (as a nutrient) that limits the population size of an organism 2. serving to specify the application of the modified noun <this in “this book” is a limiting word> • limitingly adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see limit

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