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constraining
adjective as in compelling
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adjective as in exigent
adjective as in forceful
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adjective as in hard-hitting
adjective as in pressing
adjective as in repressive
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adjective as in restraining
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Example Sentences
For one, these maps often use narrative to chart the landscape, rather than constraining it to a grid with coordinates.
Complex underpinnings very slowly melted away into less and less constraining garments.
I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining.
Finally, some dismiss Facebook and others for simply pushing a product and constraining rather than liberating consumer choice.
When demand is constraining an economy, there is little to be gained from increasing potential supply.
With those, who knew him well, constraining was the influence of this man, who spoke with authority of life and God and duty.
And constraining himself, and distorting his esthetic and ethical feeling, he tries to conform to the ruling opinion.
He was essentially an Industrial man; great in organizing, regulating, in constraining chaotic heaps to become cosmic for him.
Every one is conscious that, however corrupt his nature, he is under no irresistible impulse, no constraining necessity.
Military science, constraining chaos into the cosmic state, has nowhere such a problem.
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On this page you'll find 155 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to constraining, such as: fascinating, coercive, compulsory, forcible, and imperative.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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