Inordinate

3 definitions found

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

  Inordinate \In*or"di*nate\, a. [L. inordinatus disordered. See
     {In-} not, and {Ordinate}.]
     Not limited to rules prescribed, or to usual bounds;
     irregular; excessive; immoderate; as, an inordinate love of
     the world. "Inordinate desires." --Milton. "Inordinate
     vanity." --Burke. -- {In*or"di*nate*ly}, adv. --


     {In*or"di*nate*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inordinate
       adj : beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of
             inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of
             undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: {excessive},
              {undue}, {unreasonable}]

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

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "inordinate":
     a bit much, abandoned, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed,
     bibulous, bigoted, boundless, crapulent, crapulous, cutthroat,
     disproportionate, dizzy, egregious, enormous, exacting,
     exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extra,
     extravagant, extreme, extremist, fabulous, fanatic, fancy,
     gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, grandiloquent, gratuitous,
     grossly overpriced, haggard, high, high-flown, hyperbolic,
     hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, indulgent, inflated,
     inflationary, intemperate, irrational, magnified, monstrous,
     out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped,
     overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic,
     overenthusiastic, overestimated, overgreat, overgrown,
     overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overmuch, overpraised,
     overpriced, overreligious, oversold, overstated, overstressed,
     overweening, overwrought, overzealous, perfervid, preposterous,
     prodigal, profuse, prohibitive, puffed, rabid, self-indulgent,
     skyrocketing, spiraling, steep, stiff, stretched, supererogatory,
     superfluous, superlative, surplus, swinish, too much, touted,
     towering, ultrazealous, unbridled, uncalled-for, unconscionable,
     unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, undue, unfrugal,
     unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained,
     untempered, unthrifty, unwarranted, usurious, wanton, wild-eyed,
     wild-looking, zealotic