excessive

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excessive - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

excessive - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  excessive
      adj 1: 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]
      2: unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings;
         "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening
         ambition"; "overweening greed" [syn: excessive,
         extravagant, exuberant, overweening]

excessive - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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