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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective excessive has 2 senses
- excessive(s = adj.all) inordinate, undue, unreasonable - beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" Derived forms verb exceed3, verb exceed2, noun excessiveness1
- excessive(s = adj.all) extravagant, exuberant, overweening - unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed" Derived form noun excessiveness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
excessive, a. [Cf. F. excessif.].
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. [1913 Webster]
"Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living."
Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous
OXFORD DICTIONARY
excessive, adj.
1 too much or too great.
2 more than what is normal or necessary.
1 too much or too great.
2 more than what is normal or necessary.
Derivative
excessively adv. excessiveness n.
THESAURUS
excessive
a bit much, abandoned, acute, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed, bibulous, boundless, cloying, crapulent, crapulous, cutthroat, cutting, disgusting, disproportionate, dissipated, dizzy, drastic, egregious, enormous, exacting, exaggerated, excess, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fierce, fulsome, furious, gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, grandiloquent, great, grossly overpriced, high, high-flown, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, improper, inappropriate, incontinent, indulgent, inflated, inflationary, inordinate, intemperate, intense, keen, limitless, magnified, monstrous, nauseating, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, over, overbig, overboard, overdeveloped, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overgrown, overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overmuch, overpraised, overpriced, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overweening, overwrought, piercing, preposterous, prodigal, profuse, prohibitive, puffed, rigorous, rough, self-indulgent, severe, sharp, sky-high, skyrocketing, spiraling, splitting, steep, stiff, stretched, super, superfluous, superlative, supernatural, swinish, too much, tough, touted, towering, unbounded, unbridled, unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, undue, unfrugal, unjustifiable, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, untempered, unthrifty, unwarranted, usurious, vehement, venomous, violent, virulentROGET THESAURUS
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Redundancy
N redundancy, redundance, too much, too many, superabundance, superfluity, superfluence, saturation, nimiety, transcendency, exuberance, profuseness, profusion, repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque, lion's share, more than enough, plethora, engorgement, congestion, load, surfeit, sickener, turgescence, overdose, overmeasure, oversupply, overflow, inundation, avalanche, accumulation, heap, drug, drug in the market, glut, crowd, burden, excess, surplus, overplus, epact, margin, remainder, duplicate, surplusage, expletive, work of supererogation, bonus, bonanza, luxury, intemperance, extravagance, exorbitance, lavishment, pleonasm, too many irons in the fire, embarras de richesses, redundant, too much, too many, exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish, prodigal, exorbitant, overweening, extravagant, overcharged, supersaturated, drenched, overflowing, running over, running to waste, running down, crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing, gorged, ready to burst, dropsical, turgid, plethoric, obese, superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous, uncalled for, to spare, in excess, over and above, de trop, adscititious, supernumerary, on one's hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive, un peu fort, over, too, over and above, overmuch, too much, too far, without measure, beyond measure, out of measure, with a to spare, over head and ears, up to one's eyes, up to one's ears, extra, beyond the mark, acervatim, it never rains but it pours, fortuna multis dat nimium nulli satis, Degree of Subservience.Greatness
N greatness, magnitude, size, multitude, immensity, enormity, infinity, might, strength, intensity, fullness, importance, great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world, mass, heap, stock, peck, bushel, load, cargo, cartload, wagonload, shipload, flood, spring tide, abundance, principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best part, essential part, bulk, mass, great, greater, large, considerable, fair, above par, big, huge, Herculean, cyclopean, ample, abundant, full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep, high, signal, at its height, in the zenith, world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive, wholesale, many, goodly, noble, precious, mighty, sad, grave, heavy, serious, far gone, arrant, downright, utter, uttermost, crass, gross, arch, profound, intense, consummate, rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate, glaring, flagrant, stark staring, thorough-paced, thoroughgoing, roaring, thumping, extraordinary, important, unsurpassed, complete, august, grand, dignified, sublime, majestic, vast, immense, enormous, extreme, inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown, towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, unlimited, unapproachable, unutterable, indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression, fabulous, undiminished, unabated, unreduced, unrestricted, absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect, finished, remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest, noteworthy, renowned, truly, decidedly, unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally, radically, downright, in all conscience, for the most part, in the main, entirely, abundantly, widely, far and wide, greatly, much, muckle, well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little, pretty, pretty well, enough, in a great measure, richly, to a large extent, to a great extent, to a gigantic extent, on a large scale, so, never so, ever so, ever so dole, scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much, by wholesale, mighty, powerfully, with a witness, ultra, in the extreme, extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely, immeasurably, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all bounds, incalculably, infinitely, preeminently, superlatively, immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance, particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously, uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly, pointedly, mainly, chiefly, famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly, emphatically, kat exochin, strangely, wonderfully, amazingly, surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully, stupendously, peculiarly, furiously, severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly, piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably, shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly, a maximis ad minima, greatness knows itself, mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, minimum decet libere cui multum licet, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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