limited, adj. 1. confined, restricted, hemmed in, hedged in; tied down, checked, curbed; constrained, bound, restrained, hampered, cramped; fixed, delimited, delimitated, demarcated; circumscribed, encircled, encompassed, girded.
2. unimaginative, undiscerning, unperceptive; unintelligent, witless, slow-witted, dull-witted, dull; stolid, obtuse, crass, Boeotian, bovine, blockish, lumpish; dense, thick-headed, Inf. thick, slow, stupid, Brit., Australian Inf. dill, Scot. and North Eng. dowf; backward, doltish. SI. birdbrained, simple; empty-headed, vacuous.
limiting, adj. confining, restricting, restrictive, checking, curbing, limitative; constraining, binding, bounding, restraining, hampering, cramping; delimiting, delimitative, delimitating, fixing, circumscribing; provisional, provisory, modifying, qualifying, qualificatory, qualificative.
limitless, adj. boundless, unbounded, unlimited, uncircumscribed, unrestricted, illimitable, shoreless; immense, vast, great, extensive; incalculable, undetermined, indeterminate, indefinite, undefined; immeasurable, measureless, beyond measure, innumberable, numberless, myriad, countless, untold, uncounted; infinite, endless, without end, unending, never-ending, interminable, inexhaustible; unceasing, constant, uninterrupted, perpetual, eternal; enduring, everlasting, permanent.
limp1, v. 1. hobble, hitch, walk lamely; totter, dodder, toddle, stagger, seesaw, move unsteadily, teeter; falter, halt, pause, hesitate; shuffle, shamble, drag one's feet.
2. crawl, creep, inch, drag, move slowly.
-n. 3. hobble, hitch, jerk, claudication, uneven gait, SI. gimp, tottering, staggering, doddering, shamble, halting, shuffle; lameness, infirmity, crippled leg, talipes, clubfoot.
limp2, adj. 1. flaccid, flabby, soft, quaggy, unfirm, unfit, Inf. out of shape; slack, lax, unstiff, unstiffened, unstarched, starchless, All Dial, limpsy, limpsey, limsy.
2. tired, fatigued, lethargic, weary, boneweary, worn, worn-out, exhausted, wasted, sapless, unenergetic, spent, played out, effete; weak, feeble, enfeebled, frail, puny, infirm, debilitated, shaky, sickly, anemic, failing, decrepit, lame, unsteady, unstable.
3. flimsy, supple, flexile, flexible, pliable, pliant, malleable, tractable, ductile, plastic; yielding, submissive, giving in, unresisting, irresolute, unsteadfast, unstaunch, half-hearted, lukewarm; characterless, spineless, nerveless, marrowless, sinewless, pithless, namby-pamby, SI. gutless; weak-kneed, wishy-washy, chicken-hearted, lily-livered, timid, timorous, SI. chicken, SI. candy-assed; impotent, powerless, ineffective, strengthless, insipid, jejune, senile, anile, old-womanish.
limpid, adj. 1. clear, transparent, transpicuous, crystal-clear, crystalline, crystal, glassy, glass-like, hyaline, vitreous, see-through; (of air) pure, unpolluted, sunny, sunshiny, shiny, bright; pellucid, translucent, lucent, diaphanous, sheer, thin.
2. lucid, perspicuous, clear as day, plain, plain as day, plain as the nose on your face, plain-spoken, simple, straightforward, exoteric; intelligible, understandable, comprehensible, comprehendible, apprehensible, ascertainable, perceptible, discernible; coherent, rational, logical, reasonable, pervious; clear-cut, distinct, explicit, precise, exact, sharp, express, articulate, well-defined, well-spoken, well-written, graphic; obvious, evident, self-evident, apparent, manifest, salient, palpable, patent; unambiguous, unconfused, unquestionable.