Word Meanings - LIMITED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited. Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called

Additional info about word: LIMITED

Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited. Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called on to contribute beyond the amount of his shares. Mozley & W.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIMITED)

• Circumscribed
• Limited
• narrow
• restricted
• Close \adj Narrow
• limited
• condensed
• packed
• secret
• compressed
• solid
• firm
• compact
• reserved
• niggardly
• shut
• fast
• dense
• Definite
• Clear
• specified
• determined
• definitive
• specific
• certain
• ascertained
• precise
• exact
• fixed
• bounded
• positive
• Finite
• terminable
• Moderate
• temperate
• calm
• dispassionate
• sober
• abstinent
• sparing
• steady
• ordinary

Related words: (words related to LIMITED)

• SPECIFICNESS
  The quality or state of being specific.
• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• PACKMAN
  One who bears a pack; a peddler.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• PACK
  To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5. (more info) 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or
• DEFINITIVE
  1. Determinate; positive; final; conclusive; unconditional; express. A strict and definitive truth. Sir T. Browne. Some definitive . . . scheme of reconciliation. Prescott. 2. Limiting; determining; as, a definitive word. 3. Determined; resolved.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• INFINITESIMAL
  Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small. Infinitesimal calculus, the different and the integral calculus, when developed according to the method used by Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.