Word Meanings - TERMINABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Capable of being terminated or bounded; limitable. -- Ter"mi*na*ble*ness, n. Terminable annuity, an annuity for a stated, definite number of years; -- distinguished from life annuity, and perpetual annuity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TERMINABLE)

• Finite
• Limited
• bounded
• terminable
• restricted

Related words: (words related to TERMINABLE)

• 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.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• BOUNDING
  Moving with a bound or bounds. The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.
• LIMITARY
  1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.
• LIMITANEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a limit.
• LIMITATE
  Bounded by a distinct line.
• LIMITOUR
  See 2
• LIMITEDNESS
  The quality of being limited.
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• 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
• FINITELESS
  Infinite. Sir T. browne.
• FINITE
  Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.
• BOUNDEN
  1. Bound; fastened by bonds. 2. Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden. This holy word, that teacheth us truly our bounden duty toward our Lord God in every point. Ridley. 3. Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding.
• FINITENESS
  The state of being finite.
• 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;
• LIMITLESS
  Having no limits; unbounded; boundless. Davies .
• RESTRICTION
  1. The act of restricting, or state of being restricted; confinement within limits or bounds. This is to have the same restriction with all other recreations,that it be made a divertisement. Giv. of Tonque. 2. That which restricts; limitation;
• HOME-BOUND
  Kept at home.
• OUTBOUND
  Outward bound. Dryden.
• 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
• 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.
• UNBOUNDED
  Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
• INDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited. -- In`de*ter"mi*na*bly, adv.
• SURREBOUND
  To give back echoes; to reëcho. Chapman.
• REBOUND
  1. To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
• PRELIMIT
  To limit previously.
• DEFINITE
  1. Having certain or distinct; determinate in extent or greatness; limited; fixed; as, definite dimensions; a definite measure; a definite period or interval. Elements combine in definite proportions. Whewell. 2. Having certain limits
• UNDETERMINABLE
  Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.
• PREFINITE
  Prearranged. " Set and prefinite time." Holland.
• INTERMINABLENESS
  The state of being endless.
• CONTERMINABLE
  Having the same bounds; terminating at the same time or place; conterminous. Love and life not conterminable. Sir H. Wotton.