'Excessive' definitions:
Definition of 'excessive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: excessive, inordinate, undue, unreasonable]
adjective
Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed" [syn: excessive, extravagant, exuberant, overweening]
Definition of 'Excessive'
From: GCIDE
- Excessive \Ex*cess"ive\ ([e^]k*s[e^]s"[i^]v), a. [Cf. F. excessif.] Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. [1913 Webster]
- 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, adv. -{Ex*cess"ive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'excessive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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