excessive

English

Etymology

From Middle English excessive, excessif, from Old French excessif, from Medieval Latin excessivus, equivalent to excess +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsɛsɪv/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
• Homophone: exessive

Adjective

excessive (comparative more excessive, superlative most excessive)

1. Exceeding the usual bounds of something; too much (of amount); extravagant; immoderate.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excessive

   Antonyms: insufficient, deficient

   The movie's excessive use of special effects distracted from the plot.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 54:

     "You can throw off your cumbersome disguise here," said Lucy, though the words could scarcely be distinguished, from her excessive agitation, Evelyn hastily caught up a cloak and cap laid ready for him, and a few minutes brought them into the sitting-room.

Derived terms

• excessively
• excessiveness
• excessive number
• excessivism
• nonexcessive
• overexcessive
• ultraexcessive
• ultra-excessive
• unexcessive

Related terms

• exceed
• excess

Translations

exceeding the bounds of something

Arabic: مُفْرِط m (mufriṭ), زَائِد (zāʔid) Armenian: ավելորդ (hy) (avelord) Bulgarian: прекален (bg) (prekalen) Catalan: excessiu (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 過度 / 过度 (zh) (guòdù), 過分 / 过分 (zh) (guòfèn) Czech: nadměrný (cs) Dutch: overmatig (nl) Esperanto: troa, ekscesa Finnish: liiallinen (fi), yletön (fi) French: excessif (fr) Galician: excesivo (gl) Georgian: ზედმეტი (zedmeṭi), მეტისმეტი (meṭismeṭi), გადაჭარბებული (gadač̣arbebuli), ზომაგადასული (zomagadasuli), უზომო (uzomo), ჭარბი (č̣arbi), გადამეტებული (gadameṭebuli) German: übermäßig (de), exzessiv (de) Greek: υπερβολικός (el) (ypervolikós), υπέρμετρος (el) (ypérmetros) Ancient: ὑπέρμετρος (hupérmetros), μέγας (mégas) Hindi: अतिरिक्त (hi) (atirikt) Hungarian: túlzott (hu) Icelandic: óhóflegur (is) Irish: iomarcach Italian: eccessivo (it) Japanese: 過度の (ja) (かどの, kado no) Korean: 과도의 (ko) (gwado-ui) Latin: nimius, improbus Latvian: pārmērīgs, pārliecīgs Macedonian: пре́теран (préteran), преку́мерен (prekúmeren) Maori: tuhene, inati, rikarika Norwegian: Bokmål: overdreven (no) Nynorsk: overdriven Occitan: excessiu (oc) Ottoman Turkish: آشیری (aşırı) Polish: nadmierny (pl), wygórowany (pl) Portuguese: excessivo (pt) Romanian: excesiv (ro) Russian: ли́шний (ru) (líšnij), изли́шний (ru) (izlíšnij), чрезме́рный (ru) (črezmérnyj), избы́точный (ru) (izbýtočnyj) Scottish Gaelic: anabarrach Spanish: excesivo (es) Swedish: överdriven (sv) Tagalog: labis (tl) Ukrainian: надмі́рний (nadmírnyj), непомі́рний (nepomírnyj)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.sɛ.siv/ ~ /ɛk.se.siv/

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Adjective

excessive

1. feminine singular of excessif

Interlingua

Adjective

excessive (comparative plus excessive, superlative le plus excessive)

1. excessive

Related terms

• excesso

Latin

Adjective

excessīve

1. vocative masculine singular of excessīvus