limiting

SEE DEFINITION OF limiting

verbconfine, restrict

Synonyms for limiting

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Antonyms for limiting

definitive

adjective. authoritative

prohibitive

adjective. restrictive; beyond one's

restrictive

adjective. provisional

terminal

adjective. final, deadly

Word Origin & History

late 14c., from Old French limiter "mark (a boundary), restrict; specify," from Latin limitare "to bound, limit, fix," from limes "boundary, limit" (see limit (n.)). Related: limited; limiting.

Example Sentences forlimiting

But to have continued the same life would have been wrong because it would have been limiting.

We tried to find out if there were any means of limiting the number of participators in our scheme.

At that rate, the limiting grade for the team would be fifteen per cent.

M. Necker is to set about correcting abuses, and limiting privileges.

Certainly; when you began I thought you were limiting the question to the case of friends.

First, the limiting of population by the will of human individuals.

To repeal the act of 1887 limiting the inheritance of personal property.

The limiting rate is probably roughly inversely as the diameter.

He poured out the drink, limiting the amount to the condition of the one served.

Woe to the people who are incapable of limiting the sphere of action of the State.

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