Excessive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Excessive \Ex*cess"ive\ ([e^]k*s[e^]s"[i^]v), a. [Cf. F.
     excessif.]
     Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. --Shak.


  
     Syn: Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous;
          immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See
          {Enormous} --{Ex*cess*ive*ly}, adv. -{Ex*cess"ive*ness},
          n.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  excessive
       adj 1: beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of
              inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of
              undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: {inordinate},
               {undue}, {unreasonable}]
       2: unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise";
          "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition";
          "overweening greed" [syn: {extravagant}, {exuberant}, {overweening}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  131 Moby Thesaurus words for "excessive":
     a bit much, abandoned, acute, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed,
     bibulous, boundless, cloying, crapulent, crapulous, cutthroat,
     cutting, disgusting, disproportionate, dissipated, dizzy, drastic,
     egregious, enormous, exacting, exaggerated, excess, exorbitant,
     extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fierce,
     fulsome, furious, gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, grandiloquent,
     great, grossly overpriced, high, high-flown, hyperbolic,
     hypertrophied, immoderate, improper, inappropriate, incontinent,
     indulgent, inflated, inflationary, inordinate, intemperate,
     intense, keen, limitless, magnified, monstrous, nauseating,
     out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, over, overbig, overboard,
     overdeveloped, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic,
     overestimated, overgreat, overgrown, overindulgent, overindulging,
     overlarge, overmuch, overpraised, overpriced, oversold, overstated,
     overstressed, overweening, overwrought, piercing, preposterous,
     prodigal, profuse, prohibitive, puffed, rigorous, rough,
     self-indulgent, severe, sharp, sky-high, skyrocketing, spiraling,
     splitting, steep, stiff, stretched, super, superfluous,
     superlative, supernatural, swinish, too much, tough, touted,
     towering, unbounded, unbridled, unconscionable, unconstrained,
     uncontrolled, undisciplined, undue, unfrugal, unjustifiable,
     unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained,
     untempered, unthrifty, unwarranted, usurious, vehement, venomous,
     violent, virulent