limiting

limiting
Synonyms and related words:
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

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