Exact Match:
- confining
- restricting the scope or freedom of action
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- categorical,
- characteristic,
- classificational,
- classificatory,
- confining,
- definitive,
- denominative,
- differential,
- distinctive,
- divisional,
- divisionary,
- exclusive,
- limitary,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- ordinal,
- particular,
- peculiar,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- special,
- specific,
- subdivisional,
- taxonomic,
- typal,
- typical
- abutting,
- adjacent,
- adjoining,
- ambient,
- bordering,
- circling,
- circumambient,
- circumferential,
- circumflex,
- circumfluent,
- circumfluous,
- circumjacent,
- claustral,
- confining,
- contextual,
- embracing,
- encircling,
- enclosing,
- encompassing,
- enfolding,
- enveloping,
- environing,
- environmental,
- limiting,
- local,
- nearby,
- neighboring,
- parietal,
- peripheral,
- roundabout,
- suburban,
- wrapping
- ambient,
- assimilating,
- circling,
- circumambient,
- circumferential,
- circumflex,
- circumfluent,
- circumfluous,
- circumjacent,
- claustral,
- comprising,
- confining,
- containing,
- counting,
- covering,
- embracing,
- encircling,
- encompassing,
- enfolding,
- enveloping,
- environing,
- envisaging,
- including,
- inclusive,
- incorporating,
- limiting,
- neighboring,
- numbering,
- parietal,
- peripheral,
- roundabout,
- suburban,
- surrounding,
- wrapping
- limiting
collapse - 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" 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
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- acid,
- acidulous,
- acrid,
- acrimonious,
- astringent,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- binding,
- biting,
- bitter,
- bleak,
- caustic,
- confining,
- cutting,
- demanding,
- double-edged,
- dour,
- draconian,
- drawing,
- edged,
- escharotic,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- fierce,
- grim,
- hard,
- harsh,
- incisive,
- inclement,
- ironhanded,
- keen,
- meticulous,
- mordacious,
- mordant,
- penetrating,
- piercing,
- poignant,
- rigorist,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- scathing,
- severe,
- sharp,
- stabbing,
- stern,
- stinging,
- strict,
- strident,
- tart,
- tough,
- trenchant,
- ungentle,
- unsparing,
- vehement,
- violent,
- virulent,
- vitriolic
- restrictive
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- (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports
- serving to restrict; "teenagers eager to escape restrictive home environments" related words >
- altering,
- assuasive,
- bounding,
- choking,
- confining,
- constrictive,
- contrary,
- counterproductive,
- cramping,
- crosswise,
- defining,
- definitive,
- ethnocentric,
- exceptional,
- excluding,
- exclusive,
- exclusory,
- extenuating,
- extenuatory,
- hindering,
- hindersome,
- in the way,
- inadmissible,
- inhibiting,
- inhibitive,
- insular,
- interrupting,
- interruptive,
- lenitive,
- limitary,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- mitigating,
- mitigative,
- mitigatory,
- modificatory,
- modifying,
- modulatory,
- narrow,
- narrowing,
- obstructing,
- obstructive,
- obstruent,
- occlusive,
- palliative,
- parochial,
- preclusive,
- prescriptive,
- preventive,
- prohibitive,
- qualificative,
- qualificatory,
- qualifying,
- repressive,
- restricting,
- seclusive,
- segregative,
- select,
- selective,
- separative,
- snobbish,
- softening,
- stifling,
- strangling,
- suppressive,
- troublesome,
- xenophobic
- narrowing
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- the act of making something narrower
- an instance of becoming narrow
- a decrease in width related words >
- abbreviation,
- astriction,
- astringency,
- ban,
- bar,
- barring,
- blockade,
- bottleneck,
- boycott,
- cervix,
- circumscription,
- coarctation,
- compactedness,
- compaction,
- compression,
- compressure,
- concentration,
- condensation,
- confining,
- consolidation,
- constriction,
- constringency,
- contraction,
- contracture,
- cramping,
- curtailment,
- debarment,
- debarring,
- decrease,
- demarcation,
- diminuendo,
- disentanglement,
- disinvolvement,
- distillation,
- embargo,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- hourglass,
- hourglass figure,
- inadmissibility,
- injunction,
- isthmus,
- knitting,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- lockout,
- narrow place,
- neck,
- nonadmission,
- omission,
- preclusion,
- prohibition,
- puckering,
- purification,
- pursing,
- reduction,
- refinement,
- rejection,
- relegation,
- repudiation,
- restricting,
- restriction,
- restrictive,
- shortening,
- simplification,
- solidification,
- stranglement,
- strangulation,
- streamlining,
- striction,
- stricture,
- stripping,
- stripping down,
- systole,
- taboo,
- taper,
- tapering,
- uncluttering,
- unscrambling,
- unsnarling,
- wasp waist,
- wrinkling
- definitive
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- supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement; "a definitive verdict"; "a determinate answer to the problem"
- clearly defined or formulated; "the plain and unequivocal language of the laws"- R.B.Taney related words >
- absolute,
- accurate,
- actual,
- admitting no exception,
- all-out,
- arrant,
- authoritative,
- boundary,
- categorical,
- caudal,
- clarifying,
- classical,
- clean-cut,
- clear,
- clear-cut,
- closing,
- complete,
- completing,
- concluding,
- conclusive,
- confining,
- consummate,
- crass,
- decided,
- decisive,
- defining,
- definite,
- determinate,
- determinative,
- determining,
- downright,
- egregious,
- ending,
- endmost,
- entire,
- eventual,
- exact,
- exclusive,
- exhaustive,
- explicit,
- express,
- extreme,
- farthest,
- final,
- finishing,
- fixed,
- flagrant,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- glaring,
- global,
- gross,
- implicit,
- inappealable,
- indisputable,
- intolerable,
- last,
- limitary,
- limitative,
- limiting,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- peremptory,
- perfect,
- polar,
- positive,
- precious,
- precise,
- profound,
- pronounced,
- proper,
- rank,
- real,
- regular,
- reliable,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- round,
- settling,
- shattering,
- shocking,
- specific,
- stark,
- stark-staring,
- straight,
- straight-out,
- superlative,
- surpassing,
- tail,
- terminal,
- terminating,
- terminative,
- the veriest,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- through and through,
- total,
- ultimate,
- unambiguous,
- unbearable,
- uncircumscribed,
- unconditional,
- unconditioned,
- unconscionable,
- undeniable,
- undoubting,
- unequivocal,
- unhampered,
- unhesitating,
- unlimited,
- unmistakable,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- unquestioning,
- unrelieved,
- unreserved,
- unrestricted,
- unspoiled,
- unwaivable,
- utter,
- whole,
- without exception,
- without reserve
- exclusive
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- a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials"
- excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority; "exclusive clubs"; "an exclusive restaurants and shops"
- not divided or shared with others; "they have exclusive use of the machine"; "sole rights of publication" related words >
- Olympian,
- a certain,
- absolute,
- aloof,
- an,
- any,
- any one,
- apart from,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- article,
- atomic,
- barring,
- beat,
- budget of news,
- chic,
- chilly,
- choice,
- chosen,
- clannish,
- classy,
- cliquish,
- closed,
- cold,
- concentrated,
- confining,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- cool,
- copy,
- dashing,
- debarring,
- defining,
- definitive,
- detached,
- disdainful,
- distant,
- either,
- elect,
- elegant,
- elite,
- ethnocentric,
- except for,
- excepting,
- exceptional,
- excluding,
- exclusive of,
- exclusory,
- fashionable,
- fixed,
- forbidding,
- frigid,
- frosty,
- haughty,
- high-hat,
- icy,
- ignoring,
- inaccessible,
- inadmissible,
- incompatible,
- individual,
- indivisible,
- inhibitive,
- inhibitory,
- inimical,
- insular,
- integral,
- interdictive,
- interdictory,
- irreducible,
- limitary,
- limitative,
- limited,
- limiting,
- lone,
- modish,
- monadic,
- monistic,
- narrow,
- news item,
- not counting,
- offish,
- omitting,
- one,
- only,
- parochial,
- pick,
- picked,
- piece,
- preclusive,
- preferred,
- prescriptive,
- preventive,
- private,
- privileged,
- prohibiting,
- prohibitive,
- prohibitory,
- proscriptive,
- remote,
- removed,
- repressive,
- restricted,
- restricting,
- restrictive,
- scoop,
- scornful,
- seclusive,
- segregative,
- select,
- selected,
- selective,
- separative,
- simple,
- single,
- singular,
- smart,
- sneering,
- sniffy,
- snobbish,
- snobby,
- snooty,
- snotty,
- sole,
- solid,
- solitary,
- spot news,
- standoff,
- standoffish,
- story,
- stylish,
- supercilious,
- suppressive,
- swank,
- swish,
- tony,
- toploftical,
- toplofty,
- trendy,
- unanalyzable,
- unapproachable,
- undistracted,
- undivided,
- uniform,
- unique,
- unitary,
- unshared,
- unswerving,
- whole,
- with-it,
- withdrawn,
- withering,
- xenophobic
- Sabbatarian,
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- absolute,
- absolutist,
- absolutistic,
- accurate,
- arbitrary,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- aspersion,
- astringent,
- attentive,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- bigoted,
- bossy,
- careful,
- censorious,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- circumscription,
- close,
- cold-blooded,
- complete,
- compulsive,
- confining,
- conscientious,
- constant,
- constrictive,
- correct,
- cramp,
- creedbound,
- critical,
- defined,
- delicate,
- demanding,
- despotic,
- detailed,
- dictatorial,
- direct,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- dogmatic,
- domineering,
- dour,
- draconian,
- evangelical,
- even,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- express,
- exquisite,
- faithful,
- fastidious,
- feudal,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- firm,
- forbidding,
- fundamentalist,
- fussy,
- grim,
- grinding,
- hard,
- hard-boiled,
- harsh,
- hidebound,
- high-handed,
- hyperorthodox,
- imperative,
- imperial,
- imperious,
- inerrable,
- inerrant,
- infallible,
- inflexible,
- ironhanded,
- just,
- limitation,
- literalist,
- literalistic,
- lordly,
- magisterial,
- magistral,
- masterful,
- mathematical,
- meticulous,
- micrometrically precise,
- microscopic,
- minute,
- monocratic,
- narrow,
- nice,
- obloquy,
- oppressive,
- overbearing,
- overconscientious,
- overruling,
- overscrupulous,
- particular,
- peremptory,
- perfectionistic,
- picky,
- pinpoint,
- pitiless,
- precise,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- priggish,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- puritanical,
- refined,
- reflection,
- religious,
- religiously exact,
- repressive,
- right,
- rigid,
- rigorist,
- rigorous,
- rugged,
- ruthless,
- scientific,
- scientifically exact,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- severe,
- slam,
- slur,
- square,
- staunch,
- stern,
- stint,
- straitlaced,
- stricture,
- stringent,
- subtle,
- suppressive,
- tender-conscienced,
- thorough,
- tough,
- tyrannical,
- tyrannous,
- uncompromising,
- undeviating,
- undistorted,
- unerring,
- unsparing,
- unsympathetic,
- veracious,
- veridical
- strait
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- a narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water
- strict and severe; "strait is the gate" related words >
- angustifoliate,
- angustirostrate,
- angustisellate,
- angustiseptal,
- arm,
- armlet,
- bay,
- bayou,
- belt,
- bight,
- bind,
- boca,
- bottleneck,
- bound,
- bounded,
- box,
- breakers ahead,
- canal,
- cardhouse,
- cause for alarm,
- channel,
- circumscribed,
- climacteric,
- close,
- close-fitting,
- clutch,
- complication,
- conditioned,
- confined,
- confining,
- constricted,
- contingency,
- convergence of events,
- copyrighted,
- cove,
- cramp,
- cramped,
- creek,
- crisis,
- critical juncture,
- critical point,
- crossroads,
- crowded,
- crucial period,
- crunch,
- danger,
- dangerous ground,
- defile,
- demanding,
- difficult,
- dilemma,
- disciplined,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- emergency,
- endangerment,
- estuary,
- euripus,
- exacting,
- exigency,
- extremity,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- finite,
- fjord,
- frith,
- gaping chasm,
- gathering clouds,
- gulf,
- gut,
- harbor,
- hazard,
- hell to pay,
- hinge,
- hobble,
- hot water,
- house of cards,
- how-do-you-do,
- imbroglio,
- imperilment,
- incapacious,
- incommodious,
- inlet,
- isthmian,
- isthmic,
- isthmus,
- jam,
- jeopardy,
- kyle,
- limited,
- limiting,
- loch,
- meager,
- menace,
- mess,
- mix,
- moderated,
- morass,
- mouth,
- narrow,
- narrow seas,
- narrows,
- natural harbor,
- near,
- neck,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- patented,
- peril,
- perplexity,
- pickle,
- pinch,
- plight,
- predicament,
- prescribed,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- proscribed,
- push,
- quagmire,
- qualified,
- quicksand,
- reach,
- restricted,
- restricting,
- rigorous,
- risk,
- road,
- roads,
- roadstead,
- rocks ahead,
- rub,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrape,
- slender,
- slough,
- sound,
- spot,
- squeeze,
- stew,
- sticky wicket,
- storm clouds,
- straitened,
- straits,
- swamp,
- thin ice,
- threat,
- throat,
- tight,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- tricky spot,
- trouble,
- turn,
- turning,
- turning point,
- unholy mess
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