inordinate

3 definitions found

inordinate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Inordinate \In*or"di*nate\, a. [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, adv. --
     In*or"di*nate*ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]

inordinate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  inordinate
      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]

inordinate - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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