Undue

3 definitions found

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

  Undue \Un*due"\, a.
     1. Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.
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     2. Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue
        proceeding. --Bacon.


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     3. Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty;
        disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an
        undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution
        of law.
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     {Undue influence} (Law), any improper or wrongful constraint,
        machination, or urgency of persuasion, by which one's will
        is overcome and he is induced to do or forbear an act
        which he would not do, or would do, if left to act freely.
        --Abbott.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  undue
       adj 1: not yet payable; "an undue loan" [syn: {not due}] [ant: {due}]
       2: not appropriate or proper (or even legal) in the
          circumstances; "undue influence"; "I didn't want to show
          undue excitement"; "accused of using undue force" [ant: {due}]
       3: lacking justification or authorization; "unreasonable
          searches and seizures"; "desire for undue private profit";
          "unwarranted limitations of personal freedom" [syn: {unjustified},
           {unwarranted}]
       4: beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of
          inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue
          elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: {excessive}, {inordinate},
           {unreasonable}]

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

  122 Moby Thesaurus words for "undue":
     a bit much, abandoned, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious,
     boundless, criminal, cutthroat, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful,
     dizzy, egregious, enormous, evil, exacting, exaggerated, excessive,
     exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy,
     gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, grossly overpriced,
     hardly the thing, high, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, ignominious,
     ill-timed, illegal, immoderate, improper, inappropriate, inapt,
     incontinent, incorrect, indecorous, inept, inequitable, infamous,
     inflationary, iniquitous, inordinate, intemperate, monstrous,
     nonmeritorious, not coming, not done, not outstanding,
     not the thing, off-base, off-color, out of bounds, out of sight,
     out-of-line, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat,
     overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpriced, overweening,
     preposterous, prohibitive, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful,
     shameless, sinful, skyrocketing, spiraling, steep, stiff, terrible,
     too much, towering, unapt, unbalanced, unbridled, unconscionable,
     undeserved, undeserving, unearned, unentitled, unequal,
     unequitable, uneven, unfit, unfitting, unjust, unjustifiable,
     unjustified, unlawful, unmeasurable, unmeet, unmerited, unmeriting,
     unowed, unowing, unreasonable, unrestrained, unrighteous,
     unrightful, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuitable, untimely,
     unwarrantable, unwarranted, unworthy, usurious, wicked, wrong,
     wrongful