From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inordinate \In*or"di*nate\, adjective [L. inordinatus disordered. See {In-} not, and {Ordinate}.] Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds; irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of the world. ''Inordinate desires.'' --Milton. ''Inordinate vanity.'' --Burke. -- {In*or"di*nate*ly}, adverb -- {In*or"di*nate*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: {excessive}, {undue}, {unreasonable}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "inordinate": a bit much, abandoned, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed, bibulous, bigoted, boundless, crapulent, crapulous, cutthroat, disproportionate, dizzy, egregious, enormous, exacting, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extra, extravagant, extreme, extremist, fabulous, fanatic, fancy, gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, grandiloquent, gratuitous, grossly overpriced, haggard, high, high-flown, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, indulgent, inflated, inflationary, intemperate, irrational, magnified, monstrous, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overenthusiastic, overestimated, overgreat, overgrown, overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overmuch, overpraised, overpriced, overreligious, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overweening, overwrought, overzealous, perfervid, preposterous, prodigal, profuse, prohibitive, puffed, rabid, self-indulgent, skyrocketing, spiraling, steep, stiff, stretched, supererogatory, superfluous, superlative, surplus, swinish, too much, touted, towering, ultrazealous, unbridled, uncalled-for, unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, undue, unfrugal, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, untempered, unthrifty, unwarranted, usurious, wanton, wild-eyed, wild-looking, zealotic
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