Excessively

Definition: Excessively

Excessively

Adverb

1. To an excessive degree; "John is neat to a fault".

2. To an excessive degree; "too big".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "excessively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Excessively

Greatness

Immoderately, monstrously, preposterously, inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion, with a vengeance.

Crosswords: Excessively

Books

• Excessively Diverted: The Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

And so Patty told me, and I was excessively shocked indeed

He was excessively gay, but one felt the governing power in him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They may touch other people excessively or repeat actions obsessively and unnecessarily. (references)

Without the larger release of insulin, blood sugar levels will increase excessively when you eat sugar-containing foods. (references)

Anyone, from infants to the elderly, who uses his or her voice excessively may develop a disorder related to vocal abuse. (references)

Business

Excessively high charges for examination using large-scale medical equipment should be lowered. (references)

The Chinese shipbuilding industry is entirely state-owned and employs excessively large numbers of workers. (references)

Korean industries have been excessively material-based since the 1960s when Korea was focusing on economic development and industrialization. (references)

Civil Liberties

Argentina

The daily's publisher attributed the threat to unnamed individuals displeased with the paper's coverage of excessively high salaries and allowances for provincial politicians. (references)

Russia

In some cases, foreign journalists publicly complained that military officials in the northern Caucasus region made it excessively difficult for them to obtain local press accreditation. (references)

Chile

Films and other programs judged by the CNT to be excessively violent or to have obscene language or sexually explicit scenes may be shown only after 10 p.m. when "family viewing hours" end. (references)

Economic History

Ghana

Ghana has no discriminatory or excessively onerous visa requirements. (references)

Panama

Firing practices are excessively regulated which reduces labor mobility and inhibits hiring. (references)

Lebanon

There are no discriminatory or excessively onerous requirements inhibiting foreign investors. (references)

Human Rights

Croatia

Jails are crowded, but not excessively so, and family visits and access to counsel generally are available to prisoners. (references)

Guatemala

In May the authorities arrested two instructors of the military academy, Captain Hugo Rigoberto Orozco Pu and Lieutenant Angel Boanerges Carrera Sandoval, in connection with the November 1999 death of cadet Danilo Cardona Mejia, who died after being required to perform excessively rigorous physical exercise. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

A court rejected the appeal of the former director of the School of stuntmen in Bishkek, Usen Kudaibergenov, who had been charged with receiving excessively large sums from Kulov in connection with a celebration in 1995. On December 13, a Bishkek regional court rejected the appeal of Djanybek Bakhchiev, who had worked with Kulov when the latter was vice-president and in other posts. (references)

Political Economy

NIGERIA

Importers bemoan excessively long clearance procedures, petty corruption, the extremely high berthing and unloading costs, and arbitrary application of Nigerian regulations. (references)

NIGERIA

On the down side, tariffs on numerous products and even raw material inputs and capital equipment remain excessively high, leading to chronic tariff avoidance by Nigerian importers. (references)

Papua New Guinea

Police committed arbitrary or unlawful deprivations of life, used excessive force, such as beatings, when arresting and interrogating suspects, and engaged in excessively punitive and violent raids. (references)

Political Rights

Belarus

Campaign activities were regulated excessively and heavily biased state-controlled media severely limited candidates' access to the media and the voters' choice of candidates. (references)

Trade

Australia

An IRA was carried out for cooked U.S. poultry, but the resulting cooking times and temperatures are excessively high and would render the product unpalatable. (references)

Sri Lanka

Although most items are already subject to duties below the bound rates, the GSL has not honored its WTO commitments on liquor and cigarettes, which remain subject to excessively high duties. (references)

Worker Rights

Bolivia

Unless the work contract covers this area, any worker who refuses to work based on the individual's judgment of excessively dangerous conditions may face dismissal. (references)

Philippines

The ICFTU has claimed that a union may be registered only if it represents at least 20 percent of workers in a bargaining unit, and that the law requires an excessively high number of unions before a federation or national center can be formed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "excessively": excessively jealous ♦ get excessively tired of walking ♦ raise excessively ♦ so excessively. Additional references.

Albanian

tepër (beastly, confoundedly, damnably, dearly, extremely, frightfully, greatly, highly, most, overly, overmuch, overwhelmingly, parlous, passing, pathetically, precious, so, too, too much, unduly, very), së tepërmi (at excess, exceedingly, extra, highly, to a large degree, widely), jashtë mase (excessive). (various references)

Arabic 

‏الى حد بعيد (far, quite, to a large degree, widely), ‏بافراط, ‏بإفراط (beastly, deadly, exceedingly, extremely, hard, overmuch, passing, unduly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

прекомерно (deep, overly, too, unduly). (various references)

Chinese 

過於 (too much), 过份地. (various references)

Czech

přespříliš (overmuch), nadmìrnì (unduly). (various references)

Danish

urimelige priser (excessively high prices), konvention om unødigt skadevoldende vaben (Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects). (various references)

Dutch

excessief (excessive, inordinate), buitensporig (excessive, extravagant, high-flown, inordinate). (various references)

Esperanto

ekscese. (various references)

Finnish

ylettömästi (beyond measure, immoderately), ylen määrin (abundantly). (various references)

French

excessivement, plus que de raison, outre (exceedingly), avec excès. (various references)

German

übermäßig (disproportionate, effusive, effusively, excessive, exorbitant, exuberant, exuberantly, immoderate, inordinate, intemperate, intense, over, overly, profuse, to excess, undue, unduly, unreasonably, violent), überaus (enormously, exceedingly, extremely, most, passing, vastly). (various references)

Greek 

καταχρηστικές τιμές (excessively high prices), Σύμβαση για τα απάνθρωπα όπλα (Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects), αντιδρώ υπερβολικά (go over the top, react excessively). (various references)

Hebrew 

יתר על �"מ�"�" (ultra). (various references)

Hungarian

szertelenül (beyond measure, eccentrically, exuberantly), mértéktelenül (beyond measure, exorbitantly, incontinently, inordinately), mérhetetlenül (hugely, immensely, vastly). (various references)

Indonesian

mengalem, keterlanjuran (excess), kebangetan (overly, terribly), banyak (have a lot of, in great quantities, many, much, multitude, numerous, plenty). (various references)

Italian

eccessivamente (exceedingly, over, overly, unduly), oltremodo (exceedingly, too). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

無性に (very much), 余りに (too, too much). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あまりに (too, too much), むしょうに (very much). (various references)

Korean 

과량� �으로. (various references)

Manx

ass towse (excess, excessive, vast). (various references)

Pig Latin

excessivelyay.(various references)

Portuguese

excessivamente (dead, exceedingly, overly, overmuch, shocking, unduly). (various references)

Romanian

excesiv (enormous, exceeding, exceedingly, excessive, exorbitant, extreme, intemperate, out, outrageous, plethoric, redundant, redundantly, thick, to excess, undue, unduly, unreasonable), prea mult (overmuch, to a fault, too much), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), foarte mult (a good deal of, a great deal of, dearly, far and away, fat job, greatly, largely). (various references)

Russian 

чрезмерно (beyond measure, over-, overly, overmuch, profusely, unduly), излишне (overemphasize, redundantly, superfluously). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prekomerno (exceedingly, unduly), odveć (passing). (various references)

Spanish

excesivamente (bally, exceedingly, extravagantly, redundantly, unduly, unreasonably). (various references)

Swedish

övermåttan (beyond measure, exceedingly, passing). (various references)

Turkish

fazlaca (much, overly), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), çok fazla (damn, devilish, exorbitant, far too much, immoderate, like blazes, mightily, oodles of, over, overmuch, plethoric, superabundant, too many, too much). (various references)

Welsh

dros ben llestri (extravagantly, wildly). (various references)

nimis, nimium, per. (various references)

fraca. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: excessive.

-3 letters: clevises, silvexes, vesicles, viceless.

-4 letters: excises, eyeless, iceless, lexises, silexes, sleeves, vesicle.

-5 letters: clevis, cyeses, cyesis, ecesis, excels, excess, excise, exiles, ilexes, lessee, levees, levies, lycees, selves, sexily, sieves, silvex, sleeve, slices, sycees, vessel, vexils.