Limitationist
adj, noun
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone who supports or believes in a certain limitation.
"Either demand, however, is unreasonable. It in effect invites the limitationists to shut up unless they exhibit detailed knowledge of government (and private) activities that they cannot realistically be expected to have."
Adjective
- 1 Supporting or believing in a certain limitation.
"Thus, to a reader who was also a listener, the tone of the article could have conveyed a less encompassing, indeed limitationist, notion of containment than the text itself did."
Example
More examples"Thus, to a reader who was also a listener, the tone of the article could have conveyed a less encompassing, indeed limitationist, notion of containment than the text itself did."
Etymology
From limitation + -ist.
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