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limiting

 adjective
     
lim‧it‧ing
1 preventing any improvement or increase in something:
A limiting factor in health care is the way resources are distributed.
2 informal preventing someone from developing and doing what they are interested in:
The job's OK, but it's sort of limiting.
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