way too

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈweɪ tu/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adverb

way too (not comparable)

1. To a degree that is very excessive emphatic and strengthened form of too.

   Synonyms: much too, far too

   • 1997, William Ayers, A kind and just parent: the children of juvenile court, Beacon Pr:

     Like one day when I was just a shorty my mother was drinking a beer and a policeman told her to pour it out. He was way too little to be saying that to my mother. No way I was going to let him put handcuffs on her.

   • 2005, Matt Kloskowski, Extreme Photoshop CS, page 132:

     What can I say about pixel art other than that the designers who create it have way too much time on their hands? All joking aside, pixel art has taken on a life of its own in recent years.

   • 2007 January 2, “Our Girls Are Growing Up Way Too Fast (3 Letters)”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Our girls are growing up way too fast. (title of the article)

   • 2007, Ralph A. Gessner, Deep in My Heart, page 105:

     That's taking things way too far in my book.

   • 2008, Julie Johnson Oliver, I've Been 16 for 34 Years, Groveland Branch Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 72:

     Everyone will have to guess who I want to dance with tonight, I thought. I'm not giving myself away to this bunch of gomers. That would be way too embarrassing.

   • 2011, Trish Perry, Tea for Two, page 47:

     This was one flirty dress. Way too sultry for a first date, especially with someone she might have no real interest in.

Translations

to a degree that is very excessive

• Armenian: չափից ավելի (čʻapʻicʻ aveli), շատ (hy) (šat), չափազանց (hy) (čʻapʻazancʻ)
• Catalan: molt (ca), massa (ca), excessivament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太 (zh) (tài)

• Danish: alt for
• Dutch: veel te, veels te
• Finnish: aivan liian
• French: bien trop, beaucoup trop, par trop (fr)
• Georgian: ზედმეტად (zedmeṭad)
• German: viel zu
• Greek: πολύ (el) (polý)

  Ancient Greek: ἀγα- (aga-)

• Hebrew: הרבה יותר מדי (harbé yotér midáy)
• Hindi: बहुत ही (bahut hī), बहुत (hi) (bahut)
• Hungarian: túlontúl (hu)
• Icelandic: allt of
• Irish: i bhfad ró-
• Italian: troppo (it), eccessivamente (it), soverchiamente
• Japanese: 過ぎる (ja) (すぎる, sugiru)
• Khanty:

  Northern Khanty: тумпэԯ (tumpeł) (Kazym)

• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Māori: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: altfor (no)

  Nynorsk: altfor

• Old English: miċeles tō
• Polish: aż nadto
• Portuguese: muito (pt), demasiado (pt)
• Romanian: mult prea
• Russian: сли́шком (ru) (slíškom)
• Sanskrit: अति- (sa) (áti-)
• Scottish Gaelic: fada cus
• Spanish: demasiado (es)
• Swedish: alltför (sv)
• Tamil: மிகவும் (ta) (mikavum)