limiting

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
    

• restricting the scope or freedom of action

Noun

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  confining , constraining , constrictive , restricting , modification , qualifying