excessive
Meaning of excessive
- more than is necessary, normal, or desirable; immoderate.
he was drinking excessive amounts of brandy
late Middle English: from Old French excessif, -ive, from medieval Latin excessivus, from Latin excedere ‘surpass’ (see exceed).
Information about excessive
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of excessive
ex-ces-sive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- excessive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
excessive synonyms
Meaning inordinate:
inordinate, undue, unreasonable
Meaning extravagant:
extravagant, exuberant, overweening
Meaning not sensible or restrained; excessive:
Meaning having or showing a lack of self-control; immoderate:
Meaning not showing care for the consequences of an action; rash:
Meaning not restrained or restricted:
Meaning not limited or restricted:
Meaning not controlled:
Meaning not restrained or kept in check:
Meaning uncontrolled; unconstrained:
Meaning sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious:
Meaning unnecessary, especially through being more than enough:
Meaning more formal or literary term for overabundant:
Meaning (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high:
Meaning (of a price) much too high; exorbitant:
Meaning wildly exaggerated or improbable:
Meaning very severe or serious:
Meaning not justified or authorized:
Meaning more than is needed; excessive:
Meaning (of something undesirable) not necessary because avoidable:
Meaning too large or too small in comparison with something else:
Translation of excessive
Words that rhyme with excessive
abrasive, airbrasive, appeasive, assuasive, corrasive, defeasive, dissuasive, evasive, interpervasive, invasive, nonabrasive, nonevasive, noninvasive, nonpersuasive, occasive, persuasive, pervasive, preinvasive, prepersuasive, suasive, ultrapersuasive, unabrasive, unassuasive, unevasive, uninvasive, unpersuasive, unpervasive, unpleasive, adhesive, cohesive, cresive, equicohesive, inadhesive, incohesive, inhesive, nonadhesive, noncohesive, overaggresive, semiadhesive, succesive, suppresive, unadhesive, uncohesive, advisive, appraisive, cicatrisive, collisive, decisive, derisive, divisive