Excessively

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]:

  excessively
       adv : to an excessive degree; "too big" [syn: {overly}, {to a
             fault}, {too}]

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

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "excessively":
     abominably, agonizingly, awfully, baldly, balefully,
     beyond all bounds, bitterly, blatantly, brashly, confoundedly,
     cruelly, damnably, deadly, deathly, deucedly, distressingly,
     dolorously, dreadfully, egregiously, ever, excruciatingly,
     exorbitantly, extortionately, extravagantly, extremely, flagrantly,
     frightfully, gougingly, grievously, grossly, hellishly, high,
     horribly, immensely, immoderately, improperly, inexcusably,
     infernally, inordinately, intemperately, intolerably, lamentably,
     miserably, nakedly, openly, outrageously, over, overfull, overly,
     overmuch, overweeningly, painfully, piteously, preposterously,
     prodigally, sadly, shatteringly, shockingly, something awful,
     something fierce, sorely, staggeringly, terribly, to excess,
     to extremes, too, too much, too-too, torturously, unashamedly,
     unbearably, unconscionably, unduly, unpardonably, unreasonably,
     usuriously, without restraint, woefully