Word Meanings - LIMIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic a differentia. (more info) 1. That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country;

Additional info about word: LIMIT

A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic a differentia. (more info) 1. That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor. As eager of the chase, the maid Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed. Pope. 2. The space or thing defined by limits. The archdeacon hath divided it Into three limits very equally. Shak. 3. That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent. The dateless limit of thy dear exile. Shak. The limit of your lives is out. Shak. 4. A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance. I prithee, give no limits to my tongue. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIMIT)

• Border
• Limit
• boundary
• brink
• rim
• verge
• brim
• edge
• edging
• band
• hem
• enclosure
• confine
• BOUND Confine
• limit
• circumscribe
• terminate
• restrict
• restrain
• Circumscribe
• Define
• designate
• delineate
• enclose
• fence
• Confine
• Immure
• bound
• imprison
• narrow
• incarcerate
• bind
• Mark out
• specify
• eliminate
• elucidate
• explain
• fix
• settle
• determine

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LIMIT)

• Hobble
• limp
• crawl
• creep
• shamble
• Decline
• deviate
• revert
• depart
• recede
• return
• back
• retrocede

Related words: (words related to LIMIT)

• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• FENCE MONTH
  the month in which female deer are fawning, when hunting is prohibited. Bullokar. -- Fence roof, a covering for defense. "They fitted their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or
• VERGER
  One who carries a verge, or emblem of office. Specifically: -- An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc. Strype. The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
• 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.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• CREEP
  to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• INCARCERATE
  1. To imprison; to confine in a jail or priso 2. To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia , hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.
• FENCER
  One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil. As blunt as the fencer's foils. Shak.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• EDGELESS
  Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• PREDEFINE
  To define beforehand.
• LEDGEMENT
  See LEDGMENT
• WEDGY
  Like a wedge; wedge-shaped.
• 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
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• LEADING EDGE
  same as Advancing edge, above.
• DEFENCE
  See DEFENSE