limited

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: lim=it=ed

CIDE DICTIONARY

limited, a. 

 Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited.  [1913 Webster]

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. [Eng.] Mozley & W.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

limited, adj.
1 confined within limits.
2 not great in scope or talents (has limited experience).
3 a few, scanty, restricted (limited accommodation). b restricted to a few examples (limited edition).

Idiom

limited (or limited liability) company a company whose owners are legally responsible only to a limited amount for its debts. limited liability Brit. the status of being legally responsible only to a limited amount for debts of a trading company.

Derivative

limitedly adv. limitedness n.

THESAURUS

limited

Amtrak, Lenten, Spartan, abstemious, angustifoliate, angustirostrate, angustisellate, angustiseptal, ascetic, austere, authoritative, baggage train, borne, bound, bounded, boxed in, cable railroad, chastened, choo-choo, circumscribed, close, close-fitting, cog railroad, cog railway, conditioned, confined, constrained, constricted, controlled, copyrighted, cramp, cramped, crowded, determinate, dinky, disciplined, dwarfed, dwarfish, el, electric, electric train, elevated, exiguous, expert, express, express train, feature, featured, finite, fixed, flier, freight, freight train, freighter, frugal, funicular, geographically limited, goods train, half-pint, hedged, hedged about, hedged in, hemmed in, hushed, icebound, impoverished, in control, in hand, incapacious, incommodious, ineffectual, insular, interurban, isthmian, isthmic, jejune, knee-high, knowledgeable, landlocked, lean, leavened, lightning express, little, local, localized, meager, mean, metro, milk train, minimal, miserly, mitigated, moderated, modified, modulated, monorail, narrow, near, niggardly, of a place, one-horse, paltry, parliamentary, parliamentary train, parochial, parsimonious, passenger train, patented, petite, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, poor, precise, predetermined, prescribed, proscribed, provincial, puny, qualified, quelled, rack-and-pinion railroad, railroad train, rattler, reduced, reserved, restrained, restricted, restrictive, rolling stock, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, seasoned, set, short, shuttle, shuttle train, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, smallish, snowbound, softened, spare, sparing, special, specialist, specialistic, specialized, stable, starvation, stingy, stinted, strait, straitened, streamliner, stunted, subdued, subsistence, subway, technical, tempered, thin, tight, topical, train, tube, two-by-four, underground, unnourishing, unnutritious, vernacular, watered, watery, way train, windbound

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limited

Smallness

N smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.

Littleness

N littleness, smallness, exiguity, inextension, parvitude, parvity, duodecimo, Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm, rudiment, vanishing point, thinness, dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf, atomy, dandiprat, doll, puppet, Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb, manikin, mannikin, homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow, animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon, bacteria, infusoria, microzoa, phytozoaria, microbe, grub, tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry, millet seed, mustard seed, barleycorn, pebble, grain of sand, molehill, button, bubble, point, atom, fragment, powder, point of a pin, mathematical point, minutiae, micrometer, vernier, scale, microphotography, photomicrography, micrography, photomicrograph, microphotograph, microscopy, microscope (optical instruments), little, small, minute, diminutive, microscopic, microzoal, inconsiderable, exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin, undersized, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, spare, stunted, limited, cramp, cramped, pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket, portative, portable, duodecimo, dumpy, squat, short, impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable, trivial, infinitesimal, homoeopathic, atomic, subatomic, corpuscular, molecular, rudimentary, rudimental, embryonic, vestigial, weazen, scant, scraggy, scrubby, thin, granular, shrunk, brevipennate, in a small compass, in a nutshell, on a small scale, minutely, microscopically.