What does being excessive mean?
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What does being excessive mean?
excessive, immoderate, inordinate, extravagant, exorbitant, extreme mean going beyond a normal limit. excessive implies an amount or degree too great to be reasonable or acceptable. excessive punishment immoderate implies lack of desirable or necessary restraint.
What is the synonym of excessive?
Some common synonyms of excessive are exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, and inordinate. While all these words mean "going beyond a normal limit," excessive implies an amount or degree too great to be reasonable or acceptable.
How do you use excessively?
Excessively sentence example
- For the most part it is excessively dry and barren. ...
- The climate of the district is liable to extremes, being very cold in the winter and excessively hot in the summer. ...
- I was still excessively scrupulous about everything I wrote.
What's the opposite of excessive?
excessive. Antonyms: insufficient, scant, inadequate. Synonyms: enormous, undue, exorbitant, overmuch, superabundant, superfluous, unreasonable, immoderate, inordinate, extravagant.
Is excessive a positive word?
Excessive refers to something that is extra — usually in a negative way.
Is excessiveness a word?
A condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate: embarrassment, excess, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, overabundance, plethora, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit.
What does exorbitantly mean?
1 : not coming within the scope of the law. 2 : exceeding the customary or appropriate limits in intensity, quality, amount, or size.
Is excessive a adjective?
Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
What is too much of something?
used for saying that someone or something is too bad, good, dangerous etc to do something. He'd never act on his own – he's too much of a coward for that. It was considered too much of a safety risk to transport nuclear fuel by train.
What is an exorbitant person?
1 : not coming within the scope of the law. 2 : exceeding the customary or appropriate limits in intensity, quality, amount, or size.
