 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
excessive
adjective
1: beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of
inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of
undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: {inordinate},
{undue}, {unreasonable}]
2: unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise";
"exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition";
"overweening greed" [syn: {extravagant}, {exuberant}, {overweening}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Excessive \Ex*cess"ive\ ([e^]k*s[e^]s"[i^]v), adjective [Cf. F.
excessif.]
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.
Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. --Shak.
Syn: Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous;
immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See
{Enormous} --{Ex*cess*ive*ly}, adverb -{Ex*cess"ive*ness},
n.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, virulent
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