finiteadjective
uk/ˈfaɪ.naɪt/us/ˈfaɪ.naɪt/finite adjective (LIMITED)
C2 having a limit or end:
The funds available for the health service are finite and we cannot afford to waste money.
We only have a finite amount of time to complete this task - we can't continue indefinitely.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Range and limits
- all the way to idiom
- ambit
- band
- bound
- boundary
- condition
- limit
- limited
- meta-
- narrow
- narrowly
- range
- specialized
- spread
- stricture
- string
- strings attached idiom
- term
- the gamut
- threshold
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finite adjective (GRAMMAR)
specialized language in a form that shows the tense and subject of a verb, rather than the infinitive form or a participle:
In the following sentence "go" is finite: "I often go to the cinema."
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Linguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs
- accusative
- arose
- art
- aspect
- began
- bent
- ditransitive
- historic present
- linking verb
- main verb
- passivize
- past participle
- predicate
- progressive
- the future perfect
- the pluperfect
- the present simple
- the third person
- transitive
- wast
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