excessive

English

Etymology

From Middle French excessif, from Medieval Latin excessivus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsɛsɪv/

Adjective

excessive (comparative more excessive, superlative most excessive)

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

   Putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute seems rather excessive.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:excessive

Antonyms

• insufficient
• deficient

Derived terms

• excessive number

Related terms

• exceed
• excess

Translations

exceeding the bounds of something

• Arabic: زَائِد‎ (zāʾid)
• Armenian: ավելորդ (hy) (avelord)
• Bulgarian: прекален (bg) (prekalen)
• Catalan: excessiu
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: nadměrný m
• Dutch: overmatig (nl)
• Esperanto: troa, ekscesa
• Finnish: liiallinen (fi), yletön (fi)
• French: excessif (fr)
• Georgian: ზედმეტი (zedmeṭi), მეტისმეტი (meṭismeṭi), გადაჭარბებული (gadač̣arbebuli), ზომაგადასული (zomagadasuli), უზომო (uzomo), ჭარბი (č̣arbi), გადამეტებული (gadameṭebuli)
• German: übermäßig (de), exzessiv (de)
• Greek: υπερβολικός (el) m (ypervolikós), υπέρμετρος (el) m (ypérmetros)

  Ancient Greek: ὑπέρμετρος (hupérmetros)

• Hungarian: túlzott (hu)
• Icelandic: óhóflegur (is)

• Irish: iomarcach
• Italian: eccessivo (it)
• Japanese: 過度の (ja) (かどの, kado-no)
• Korean: 과도의 (ko) (gwado-ui)
• Latin: nimius
• Maori: tuhene, inati, rikarika
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: overdreven

  Nynorsk: overdriven

• Polish: nadmierny (pl), wygórowany (pl) m
• Portuguese: excessivo (pt)
• Romanian: excesiv (ro), excesivă f
• Russian: ли́шний (ru) (líšnij), изли́шний (ru) (izlíšnij), чрезме́рный (ru) (črezmérnyj), избы́точный (ru) (izbýtočnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: anabarrach
• Spanish: excesivo (es)
• Swedish: överdriven (sv)
• Tagalog: labis (tl)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.sɛ.siv/

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Adjective

excessive

1. feminine singular of excessif

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Interlingua

Adjective

excessive (comparative plus excessive, superlative le plus excessive)

1. excessive

Related terms

• excesso

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Latin

Adjective

excessive

1. vocative masculine singular of excessivus