confining

confining
I
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. limiting, restricting, bounding, circumscribing, compassing, prescribing, restraining, hampering, repressing, trammeling, checking, enclosing, imprisoning, immuring, incarcerating, detaining, keeping locked up, keeping behind bars.
Ant. freeing, infinite*, boundless.
n.
Syn. restricting, enclosing, restraining, bounding, detaining, imprisoning.
II
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Affording little room for movement: close, cramped, crowded, narrow, snug, tight. See TIGHTEN.

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