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From Middle English excessive, excessif, from Old French excessif, from Medieval Latin excessivus.
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excessive (comparative more excessive, superlative most excessive)
- 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.
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exceeding the bounds of something
- Arabic: زَائِد (zāʔid)
- Armenian: ավելորդ (hy) (avelord)
- Bulgarian: прекален (bg) (prekalen)
- Catalan: excessiu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 過度/过度 (zh) (guòdù), 過分/过分 (zh) (guòfèn)
- Czech: nadměrný (cs)
- Dutch: overmatig (nl)
- Esperanto: troa, ekscesa
- Finnish: liiallinen (fi), yletön (fi)
- French: excessif (fr)
- Galician: excesivo
- Georgian: ზედმეტი (zedmeṭi), მეტისმეტი (meṭismeṭi), გადაჭარბებული (gadač̣arbebuli), ზომაგადასული (zomagadasuli), უზომო (uzomo), ჭარბი (č̣arbi), გადამეტებული (gadameṭebuli)
- German: übermäßig (de), exzessiv (de)
- Greek: υπερβολικός (el) (ypervolikós), υπέρμετρος (el) (ypérmetros)
- Ancient: ὑπέρμετρος (hupérmetros), μέγας (mégas)
- 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, improbus
- Latvian: pārmērīgs, pārliecīgs
- Macedonian: пре́теран (préteran), преку́мерен (prekúmeren)
- Maori: tuhene, inati, rikarika
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: overdreven (no)
- Nynorsk: overdriven
- Occitan: excessiu (oc)
- Polish: nadmierny (pl), wygórowany (pl)
- Portuguese: excessivo (pt)
- Romanian: excesiv (ro)
- 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)
- Ukrainian: надмі́рний (nadmírnyj), непомі́рний (nepomírnyj)
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