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finite

adjective as in subject to limitations

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Many of the fuels we use to generate electricity —natural gas, oil, coal—are abundant yet finite.

“It is an outrage that DEA is using finite taxpayer dollars to impound legal industrial hemp seeds,” he said.

The reservoir of settlement-related projects available for promotion is finite.

And they're wise to pursue this course, because the most finite resource in this discussion is land.

For all practical purposes, the world's supply of oil is not finite.

To imitate finite excellence, is to aspire at excellence, even though but in part.

To follow these would be delightful and honouring; but would be to follow what is merely a copy, and only finite.

Its effects on creatures being finite, what is finite might these in some measure point out.

A spirit has no body; an infinite being is a being which is not finite; a perfect being is a being which is not imperfect.

What good to me is the favor of a being who, able to bestow upon me infinite good, does not even give me a finite one?

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to finite, such as: definite, fixed, limited, restricted, bound, and bounded.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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