excessive

English

Adjective

excessive (comparative more excessive, superlative most excessive)

1. Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.

   "I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive, nay even stupid."

Synonyms

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Antonyms

• insufficient
• deficient

Derived terms

• excessive number

Related terms

• exceed
• excess

Translations

exceeding the bounds of something

• Arabic: زائد (ar) (zaa'id), مبالغ (ar) (mubaaligh)
• Armenian: ավելորդ (hy) (avelord)
• Bulgarian: прекален (bg) (prekalen)
• Catalan: excessiu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過度 (cmn), 过度 (cmn) (guòdù), 過分 (cmn), 过分 (cmn) (guòfèn)

• Czech: nadměrný (cs) m
• Dutch: overmatig (nl)
• French: excessif (fr)
• German: übermäßig (de), exzessiv (de)
• Greek: υπερβολικός (el) (ypervolikós) m, υπέρμετρος (el) (ypérmetros) m

• Hungarian: túlzott (hu)
• Icelandic: óhóflegur
• Italian: eccessivo (it)
• Japanese: 過度の (ja) (かどの, kado-no)
• Korean: 과도의 (ko) (gwado-ui)
• Latin: nimius (la)
• Polish: nadmierny, wygórowany m
• Russian: лишний (ru) (líšnij), излишний (ru) (izlíšnij), чрезмерный (ru) (črezmérnyj), избыточный (ru) (izbýtočnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: anabarrach (gd)
• Spanish: excesivo (es)
• Swedish: överdriven (sv)

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Adjective

excessive

1. feminine form of excessif

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Latin

Adjective

excessive

1. vocative masculine singular of excessivus