Excessive

Definition: Excessive

Excessive

Adjective

1. Beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands".

2. Unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed".

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

Date "excessive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Excessive \Ex*cess"ive\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression excessif.]. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Excessive

Greatness

Vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant, exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous, overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible; marvelous.

Redundancy

Adjective: redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate, superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged; Verb: supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running over, running to waste, running down.

Crosswords: Excessive

It isn't easy remaining calm in the face of excessive praise from The Daily Telegraph (Carrington; writing credit: Christopher Hampton; Michael Holroyd)

I find it excessive. Even by Femur's standards (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence)

I was thinking of a more subtle approach, y'know, like excessive not studying (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang)

Excessive masturbation (Hannah and Her Sisters; writing credit: Woody Allen)

Excessive Force (1993)

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Books

• Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force (reference)

• Excessive Joy Injures the Heart (reference)

• Excessive Love Prostheses (reference)

• Excessive Measures (Probability and Its Applications) (reference)

• The Dead Bison Theory : and Other Secrets of Leadership in an Excessive Performance Organization (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Excessive Force (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Excessive Speed (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Pneumoconiosis, or Black Lung Disease, is a job related disease caused by continued exposure to excessive amounts of coal mine dust. This dust becomes imbedded in the lungs, causing them to harden, making breathing very difficult. Credit: CDC.

The first in a series of images showing NOAA scientists at the 1997 transplant site just before transplanting the eelgrass turf. Scientists worked in dry suits in the cold Bay waters and used surface air supplies at the mostly shallow sites. Zostera marina requires a specific set of physical conditions to thrive. The plants need light, nutrients and protection from excessive wave energy. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Water with excessive nutrients in northwest Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts.

Cows in lot with excessive manure buildup. Montcalm County, Michigan. Credit: Lynn Betts.

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Amendment VIII. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. (reference)

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I have been silent from surprize merely, excessive surprize

If, moreover, the fault having been committed and avowed, the punishment had not been savage and excessive.

He assured me upon his honor that he was not poisoned, but died of a fever by excessive drinking

Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that

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Health

People often believe normal passage of gas to be excessive. (references)

People with CF lose excessive amounts of salt when they sweat. (references)

Children with migraine often have nausea and excessive vomiting. (references)

Business

Investors may also face excessive bureaucratic influence in joint venture operations. (references)

Allegations have included excessive work hours, nonpayment of wages, and verbal and physical abuse. (references)

In 1999 excessive speed contributed to 124 fatal crashes, 350 serious injury crashes and 848 minor injury crashes. (references)

Civil Liberties

China

At times police used excessive force against demonstrators. (references)

Sweden

Approximately 120 demonstrators filed complaints of excessive police violence after these incidents. (references)

Mauritania

When they attempted to hold the meeting at the Hotel Chinguetti, police used excessive force to disperse them. (references)

Economic History

Benin

The banking system is not subjected to excessive regulation. (references)

Sri Lanka

Interest rates rose sharply due to excessive government borrowing. (references)

Bulgaria

The Code extends what some complain are excessive protections for workers. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

The LTTE uses excessive force in the war. (references)

Croatia

Excessive delays in trials remained a problem. (references)

India

The police action was condemned widely as being excessive. (references)

Political Economy

Romania

Police use of excessive force resulted in four deaths. (references)

Hong Kong

Individual members of the police sometimes used excessive force. (references)

Slovenia

Police in several cases allegedly used excessive force against detainees. (references)

Political Rights

Bangladesh

Due to excessive backlog in the court system, at the time the elections were held on October 1, 21 of 22 election fraud cases were still pending from the 1996 elections. (references)

Trade

Russia

Foreign companies complain of obscure standards and compliance process, unreasonably high demands, and excessive costs of certification testing. (references)

Guatemala

Imports are generally not subject to non-tariff trade barriers, though there are historical cases of arbitrary customs valuation and excessive bureaucratic obstacles. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

It is advisable to take precautions to avoid excessive fluid loss and dehydration from perspiration. (references)

Ghana

Avoid excessive exposure to the sun unless you are accustomed to it. Use of sunscreen is highly recommended. (references)

Women

Congo

The symbolic nature of the dowry set in the Family Code often is not respected, and men are forced to pay excessive brideprices to the woman's family. (references)

Worker Rights

Romania

The requirements to register a union were excessive. (references)

Fiji

Workers in some industries, notably transportation and shipping, work excessive hours. (references)

Togo

The law requires overtime compensation, and there are restrictions on excessive overtime work. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "excessive": Disorders of Excessive Somnolence ♦ excessive amount ♦ excessive charges ♦ excessive coffee drinking ♦ excessive demand ♦ excessive drinker ♦ excessive drinking ♦ excessive heating ♦ excessive pollution ♦ excessive power ♦ excessive pressure ♦ excessive sexual desire ♦ excessive stimulation ♦ excessive sweating of the hands ♦ excessive taxation. Additional references.

Afrikaans

ekstreem (extreme, inordinate). (various references)

Albanian

jashtë mase (excessively), i tepruar (de trop, dispensable, disproportionate, exaggerated, excess, exorbitant, extravagant, fabulous, far gone, fulsome, heavy, immoderate, inordinate, lavish, over, profuse, redundant, undue, unreasonable), i tepërt (excess, excrescent, last, odd, over, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, unnecessary, walloping, waste), i tepërm (excess, excrescent, last, odd, overabundant, redundant, spare, superfluous, supernumerary, walloping, waste). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفرط (exaggerated, excess, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, frightful, immoderate, intemperate, intolerable, overabundant, overmuch, overweening, super, superabundant, superfluous, superlative, too much, unconscionable, undue, unqualified, unreasonable, unrestrained), ‏متهور (audacious, blind, blindfold, blindfolded, brash, careless, daredevil, daredevilry, desperate, devil may care, extravagant, foolhardy, harum scarum, hasty, headlong, heady, heedless, hot-headed, immaterial, impetuous, impish, imprudent, impulsive, inconsiderate, light-headed, madcap, precipitate, precipitous, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, too hasty, unrestrained, unwary), ‏متطرف (drastic, extravagant, extreme, extremist, immoderate, inordinate, intemperate, radical, unrestrained), ‏زائد (excrescent, plus, redundant, superfluous, supernumerary, swollen). (various references)

Bulgarian 

прекомерен (exaggerated, exorbitant, extravagant, immoderate, inordinate, intense, over, undue), прекален (extreme, inordinate, overdone, profuse, superfluous, thick, unconscionable, undue, unholy, unmerciful). (various references)

Chinese 

過度 (exceeding, lavishly), 過多 , 過份 (unduly), 過分 (overly, undue), 过份, 淫 (kinky, lewd, obscene, wanton), 濫 , �' (to change). (various references)

Czech

přehnaný (exaggerated, exaggerative, exorbitant, overdone, tall), přílišný (over, too, undue), nestřídmý (immoderate, intemperate), nadmìrný (excess, exuberant, overdone, undue), krajní (extreme, outer, outmost, ultra, utmost, uttermost), horentní (exorbitant, huge, ruinous). (various references)

Danish

excessiv. (various references)

Dutch

excessief (excessively, inordinate), extreem (extreme, extremely, inordinate), buitensporig (excessively, extravagant, high-flown, inordinate). (various references)

Esperanto

ekscesa (inordinate). (various references)

Farsi 

مفرط (Boisterous, Extravagant, Extreme, Inordinate, Intensive), بیش ازاندازه (Ample). (various references)

Finnish

yletön (extravagant, immoderate, unreasonable), ylenpalttinen (abundant, profuse), ylenmääräinen (beyond measure), suhdaton (disproportionate, out of proportion), liikanainen (superfluous, surplus), liian suuri (too big), liiallinen (inordinate, superfluous, surplus), kohtuuton (exorbitant, extortionate, immoderate, unfair, unreasonable), kohtuuhinta (exorbitant, extortionate, immoderate, unfair, unreasonable). (various references)

French

excessif (exorbitant, extortionate). (various references)

German

exzessiv. (various references)

Greek 

υπέρμετροσ (exorbitance, immoderate, inordinate, overmuch), υπερβολικός. (various references)

Hebrew 

מופרז (exaggerated, extravagant, immoderate, inordinate, outre, tall, undue), יתיר (additional, superfluous), יתר (abundance, excess, more, remainder, rest, superfluous, surplus), � פרז (exaggerated). (various references)

Hungarian

túlzott (affectation, complacency, exaggerated, exorbitant, extreme, far-fetched, foppish, immodest, inordinate, obsequiousness, obsequy, outre, over-anxious, overboard, overdone, over-excitement, overshot, steep), túlságos (exaggerated, immoderate, inordinate, over-development, undue), rendkívül magas, mértéktelen (beyond measure, immoderate, incontinent, inordinate, intemperate, loose, outrageous, sodden face, to know no bounds, to know no measure, to lose all sense of proportion), határtalan (borderless, boundless, extreme, huge, illimitable, indefinite, infinite, limitless, measureless, spaceless, termless, to know no bounds, unbounded), eltúlzott (overdone, overshot). (various references)

Indonesian

keterlaluan (execrable, far too much, unreasonable), kelewatan (abusive, over, overdo, overload), kelewat (above, over, passed by, surpassed, too), berlebihan (affluent, copious, intemperance). (various references)

Italian

eccessivo (exaggeratedly, extreme, fulsome, inordinate, lavish, overdone, steep, unconscionable, undue). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�� しい (extreme, heavy damage, intense, serious, severe, terrible, tremendous). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶ�"がい (not within proper limits, special, unmerited), どはずれ (extraordinary), かぶ�" (divisible, enquiring beforehand, generous, limited information, separable, unmerited), かとう (base, exorbitant, flexible, fructose, fruit sugar, inferior, light case of smallpox, low grade, lower class, sweetened, sweetening, vulgar), か� い (a tentative title, abutment, frame, name of poem, stand, stand for flower vase, subject, task, theme, too much, unreasonable), あくどい (gaudy, showy, vicious), めちゃくちゃ (absurd, messed up, spoiled, unreasonable, wreaked), めちゃめちゃ (absurd, rash, unreasonable), めちゃ (absurd, ridiculous), むやみ (reckless), むちゃ (absurd, absurdity, nonsense, rash, unreasonable), はなは� しい (extreme, heavy, intense, serious, severe, terrible, tremendous). (various references)

Korean 

과량 (Overdose). (various references)

Manx

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

Norwegian

overdreven (immoderate, inordinate). (various references)

Papiamen

abundante (abundant, copious, inordinate, plentiful, profuse). (various references)

Pig Latin

excessiveay.(various references)

Portuguese

excessivo (exceeding, exorbitant, fulsome, immoderate, inordinate, out-of-the-way, over, overabundant, overdone, overpowering, prohibitive, racking, rampant, redundant, steep, superfluous, supervacaneous, too, ultra, unbounded, unconscionable, undue). (various references)

Romanian

extrem (abject, exceeding, extreme, extremely, furthermost, furthest, greatest, highest, like hell, outermost, paramount, steep, supreme, ultimate, unmitigated, utmost, uttermost), exorbitant (exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, unreasonable), excesiv (enormous, exceeding, exceedingly, excessively, exorbitant, extreme, intemperate, out, outrageous, plethoric, redundant, redundantly, thick, to excess, undue, unduly, unreasonable), straşnic (clinking, colossal, considerable, damnably, excellent, extreme, fine, gee, goody, grand, horrible, jolly, magnificent, mightily, nifty, proper, properly, rigorous, severe, severely, smashing, solid, some, sound, stern, swell, terrible, terribly, thundering, tremendous, with a vengeance), necumpãtat (inordinate, intemperate). (various references)

Russian 

чрезмерный (exacting, exceeding, exorbitant, extreme, fulsome, immoderate, inordinate, over, overextended, overweening, prodigal, profuse, prohibitive, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, unconscionable, undue). (various references)

Scottish

baileach, anabarrach (exceedingly). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

suvišan (redundant, spare, surplus), prekomeran (exceeding, exorbitant, extortionate, inordinate, superfluous, unmeet). (various references)

Spanish

excesivo (exceeding, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, fulsome, immoderate, inflated, inordinate, reckless, redundant, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, wasteful), desmesurado (boundless, disproportionate, enormous, exorbitant, impudent, over). (various references)

Swedish

omåttlig (crapulent, crapulous, exorbitant, extravagant, immoderate, inordinate, intemperate, outrageous, overweening, unconscionable), överdriven (exaggerative, extravagant, fancy, flamboyant, fulsome, immoderate, inordinate, larger than life, obsessive, outrageous, overblown, overdone, vaulting). (various references)

Turkish

taşkın (boisterous, disorderly, ebullient, effusive, expansive, exuberant, flood, gushing, intemperate, overflowing, rambunctious, rumbustious, volcanic), lüzumsuz (inessential, needless, redundant, unnecessary, unneeded), haddinden fazla (beyond measure, out of all measure, overabundant, over-abundant), fazla (big, de trop, excess, extra, in excess of, much, out, over, rising of, spare, super-, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, thick, too, unneedful), fahiş (exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, fancy, out of sight, prohibitive, prohibitory, steep, stiff, unconscientious, unreasonable), azgın (desperate, fierce, furious, goatish, mad, rampageous, rampant, Randy, skittish, wild), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessively, 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), ölçüsüz (beyond measure, exceeding, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, incommensurable, inordinate, intemperate, measureless, out of all measure, unbounded, unconscionable, unmeasured). (various references)

Turkmen 

hetdenaюa, зendanaюa, зakdanaюa. (various references)

Ukrainian

надмірний (exceeding, exorbitant, fulsome, immoderate, outrageous, over, overabundant, overdue, plethoric, prodigal, profuse, racking, steep, superabundant, undue, unlimited, unreasonable), зайвий (excrescent, needless, nimious, odd, otiose, over, redundant, spare, superfluous, surplus). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thừa quá thể, quá mức (extravagant, far-gone, inordinate, out-of-bounds, overly, undue, unduly, unfair), quá đáng (fulsome, impossible, melodramatic, violent). (various references)

Welsh

gormodol. (various references)

immodicus, iniusta, iniustae, iniustam, iniuste, iniusti, iniustis, iniustorum, iniustos, iniustum, iniustus, inpensa, inpensas, nimia, nimiam, nimiis, nimio, nimium, nimius. (various references)

ferâ. (various references)

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "excessive": excessively, excessiveness, excessivenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Excessive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ascensive, excersise, excesive, excessif, exessive. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: excises.

-3 letters: ecesis, excess, excise, sieves.

-4 letters: execs, seise, sexes, sices, sieve, sixes, vexes, vices, vises.

-5 letters: cees, cess, eses, eves, exec, exes, ices, secs, sees, seis, sice, sics, vees, vice, vies, vise.

+2 letters: excessively.

+4 letters: excessiveness, exclusiveness, excursiveness, overexercises.