What is "excessive" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does excessive mean in English? Meaning of excessive definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "excessive" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "excessive": beyond normal limits

Adjective

  • Meaning: beyond normal limits
  • Example: excessive charges a book of inordinate length his dress stops just short of undue elegance unreasonable demands
  • Synonyms: excessive inordinate undue unreasonable
  • Similar: immoderate
  • Meaning of "excessive": unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

    Adjective

  • Meaning: unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
  • Example: extravagant praise exuberant compliments overweening ambition overweening greed
  • Synonyms: excessive extravagant exuberant overweening
  • Similar: unrestrained
  • Adjective: Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate. "I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive, nay even stupid."
  • Synonyms:

    extra, enormous, needless, exaggerated, superfluous, inordinate, unreasonable, redundant, undue, exorbitant, extravagant, unconscionable, steep, disproportionate, extreme, boundless, dissipated, immoderate, indulgent, intemperate, limitless, more, over, prodigal, profligate, self-indulgent, stiff, super, supernatural, towering, way out, dizzying, overmuch, sky-high, stratospheric, superabundant, unbounded, overboard, overkill, plethoric, recrementitious, too many, unmeasurable,

    Antonyms:

    needed, sensible, inexpensive, insufficient, underdone, essential, necessary, moderate, reasonable, cheap, economical, low, close, mild,

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    excessive in English: excessive
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