Circumscribed
adj, verb
adj, verb ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of circumscribe form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Limited narrowly; restricted.
"Blair brought out the febrile intensity of Stanhope, wiring himself into his ever more circumscribed troglodyte world, speculating moodily on the worm that went down when it thought it was coming up. Robert Philp thought Blair's ..."
Adjective
- 1 subject to limits or subjected to limits wordnet
Example
More examples"That child's free time is circumscribed."
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