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circumscribed

circumscribed adjective: limited narrowly; restricted. Also the simple past and past participle of circumscribe.

Adjective

circumscribed (comparative more circumscribed, superlative most circumscribed)

  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 ...2013, John Rentoul, Tony Blair: Prime Minister, Faber & Faber, →ISBN

Also used as

circumscribed is also the simple past and past participle of circumscribe.

Forms of circumscribed

comparativemore circumscribed
superlativemost circumscribed

Words formed from circumscribed

Phrases with circumscribed

Questions about circumscribed

What does circumscribed mean?
Circumscribed means limited narrowly; restricted.
What part of speech is circumscribed?
Circumscribed is an adjective.

Words near circumscribed in the dictionary

  1. circumsaturnian
  2. circumscissile
  3. circumscribability
  4. circumscribable
  5. circumscribe
  6. circumscribed
  7. circumscribed circle
  8. circumscribed circles
  9. circumscriber
  10. circumscribers
  11. circumscribes

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