Synonyms for Restricting:

• adj.

  •clannish (adjective)
  • associative,
  • unreceptive,
  • restrictive,
  • cliquish.
  •hindering (adjective)
  • Damming,
  • Snarling,
  • Snagging,
  • baffling,
  • Obstructing,
  • crippling,
  • Cramping,
  • impeding,
  • Encumbering,
  • Tangling,
  • Detaining,
  • thwarting,
  • Clogging,
  • Entangling,
  • Crimping,
  • Entrapping,
  • Deterring,
  • Fouling,
  • constipating,
  • burdensome,
  • hindering,
  • inhibiting,
  • congesting,
  • Resisting,
  • Complicating,
  • blocking,
  • Delaying,
  • choking,
  • Restraining,
  • frustrating,
  • Handicapping,
  • bottleneck.
  •tying (adjective)
  • re straining,
  • more confining,
  • re-straining,
  • most confining,
  • most shackling,
  • more shackling.

• n.

  •shortening (noun)
  • narrowing.

• prep.

  •exclusive of (preposition)
  • be-sides,
  • de-barring,
  • be sides,
  • de barring.

• v.

  •hindering (verb)
  • bottlenecking,
  • Checking,
  • Burdening,
  • Miring,
  • Hampering,
  • Staying,
  • fettering,
  • jamming,
  • opposing,
  • Hamstringing,
  • Paralyzing,
  • countering,
  • Plugging,
  • Interrupting,
  • curbing,
  • braking,
  • barring,
  • dragging,
  • Impairing,
  • Bunging,
  • stopping,
  • catching.
  •prohibiting (verb)
  • Disallowing,
  • Outlawing,
  • banning,
  • Preventing,
  • Curtailing,
  • Denying,
  • Rejecting,
  • disqualifying,
  • disapproving,
  • Precluding,
  • Suppressing,
  • forbidding,
  • controlling,
  • Refusing,
  • Prohibiting,
  • Oppressing.
  •restraining (verb)
  • withholding,
  • Shackling,
  • binding,
  • Tethering,
  • Leashing,
  • Collaring,
  • constricting,
  • Bridling.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • clannish,
  • tying.
  •n.
  • confining,
  • constraining,
  • constrictive,
  • limiting.
  •prep.
  • exclusive of,
  • outside of,
  • not counting,
  • leaving aside.

Paraphrases for Restricting:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    restrict, restricted.
  • Proper noun, singular
    restrict, limiting, restricted.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    restrict.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    constraining, Circumscribing, confining, Hampering.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    constricting.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    restrictive.
  • Proper noun, singular
    cutbacks, restriction, restrictions, restraint, limitation, limitations, constraint, constraints, restrictive.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    restriction, tightening, narrowing, restraint, limitation, constraint.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Rejecting, discouraging, Resisting, impeding, imposing, stifling, hindering, Obstructing, Removing, Relieving, repressing, stopping, Proscribing, Refusing, forbidding, Eliminating, Deterring, minimising, interfering, Precluding, shortening, increasing, Suppressing, Preventing, Impairing, Specifying, Enforcing, Concentrating, affecting, Deducting, Consolidating, Prescribing, Subjecting, diminishing, Reserving, inhibiting, Impacting, Checking, Subtracting, Relating, Requiring, Coercing, Depriving, Containing, Exempting, Stemming, undermining, easing, listing, Pertaining, compelling, downsizing, targeting, Denying, sparing, halting, tying, Responding, Achieving, identifying, blocking, shrinking, setting, Submitting, governing, subsiding, shielding, Subduing, Defying, Capping, closing, focusing, regarding, conditioning, slowing, Modifying, Outlawing, challenging, Aiming, obliging, bordering, Combating, weakening, neighbouring, Establishing, mandating, Forfeiting, barring, Earmarking, Allowing, delimiting, Besetting, Placing, Forcing, binding, seeing, braking, Maintaining, fixing, declining, defending, qualifying, bringing, Carrying, Plaguing, letting, keeping, putting, counting, booking, bounding, falling, limiting, making, tightening, narrowing, limit, limitations.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    limit, limits.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    curtailment, limit.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    regulating.

Antonyms for Restricting:

• p. pr. & vb. n.

  • Other antonyms:
    unrestrictive.

Restricting Sentence Examples:

• He has not, of late years, played a wide range of parts, but, restricting himself to a few characters, and those of a representative kind, the manner in which he has acted them is a perfect manner - and it is this that has gained for him his distinctive eminence.

• Mr. William Smith exposed the wickedness of restricting the trade to certain ages.