excessive

[ ik-ses-iv ]

/ ɪkˈsɛs ɪv /

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adjective

going beyond the usual, necessary, or proper limit or degree; characterized by excess: excessive charges; excessive criticism.

Origin of excessive

1350–1400; Middle English (see excess, -ive); replacing Middle English excessif < Middle French

SYNONYMS FOR excessive

immoderate, extravagant, inordinate, exorbitant, unreasonable.

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ANTONYMS FOR excessive

reasonable.

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OTHER WORDS FROM excessive

ex·ces·sive·ly, adverb ex·ces·sive·ness, noun non·ex·ces·sive, adjective non·ex·ces·sive·ly, adverb

non·ex·ces·sive·ness, noun qua·si-ex·ces·sive, adjective qua·si-ex·ces·sive·ly, adverb un·ex·ces·sive, adjective un·ex·ces·sive·ly, adverb

Words nearby excessive

excess insurance, excess luggage, excess sound pressure, excess supply, excess-profits tax, excessive, exch., exchange, exchange force, exchange rate, exchange rate mechanism

Example sentences from the Web for excessively

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Is this entire thing just one big scheme to cash in on excessively proud moms and dads?

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The book depicts Bezos and Amazon as hard-charging, insatiable, and excessively secretive.

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We do not want to excessively weight Greece, for example, which has debt over 90 per cent for 19 years in the 1946-2009 sample.

Rogoff and Reinhart Respond |Megan McArdle |April 17, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Their squeaky clean image has been excessively buffered through the years, even after the band broke up.

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The silk shops are the finest in the bazaar, but their contents are excessively dear, and are not very good.

The Catholic World. Volume II; Numbers 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. |E. Rameur
They began to dig, but they struck on an excessively hard rock, which rendered useless all their hammering and hewing.

Sketches of Central Asia (1868) |Arminius Vmbry
We have been excessively crowded on board: twenty-six officers.

Campaign of the Indus |T.W.E. Holdsworth
Her face, excessively pale before, now turned almost ghastly.

The Strand Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 38, February 1894 |Various
They are undoubtedly protected by qualities which make them excessively unpalatable to the bulk of insect-eating animals.

Darwin and Modern Science |A.C. Seward and Others

British Dictionary definitions for excessively

excessive

/ (ɪkˈsɛsɪv) /

adjective

exceeding the normal or permitted extents or limits; immoderate; inordinate

Derived forms of excessive

excessively, adverb excessiveness, noun

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