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) 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) m., υπέρμετρος (el) m.

Hungarian: túlzott (hu) Icelandic: óhóflegur m., óhófleg f., óhóflegt n. 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 f.

1. feminine form of excessif

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Latin

Adjective

excessive

1. vocative masculine singular of excessivus