excessive

English

Etymology

From Middle English excessive, excessif, from Old French excessif, from Medieval Latin excessivus, equivalent to excess +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsɛsɪv/

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• Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
• Homophone: exessive

Adjective

excessive (comparative more excessive, superlative most excessive)

The jewel chest of Louis XIV (from 1676) has excessive ornamentation even for Baroque art

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.

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 54:

     "You can throw off your cumbersome disguise here," said Lucy, though the words could scarcely be distinguished, from her excessive agitation, Evelyn hastily caught up a cloak and cap laid ready for him, and a few minutes brought them into the sitting-room.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:excessive

Antonyms

• insufficient
• deficient

Derived terms

• excessively
• excessiveness
• excessive number
• excessivism
• nonexcessive
• ultra-excessive
• ultraexcessive
• unexcessive

Related terms

• exceed
• excess

Translations

exceeding the bounds of something

• Arabic: مُفْرِط m (mufriṭ), 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)

• Hindi: अतिरिक्त (hi) (atirikt)
• 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)
• Ottoman Turkish: آشیری (aşırı)
• 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)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.sɛ.siv/ ~ /ɛk.se.siv/

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Adjective

excessive

1. feminine singular of excessif

Interlingua

Adjective

excessive (comparative plus excessive, superlative le plus excessive)

1. excessive

Related terms

• excesso

Latin

Adjective

excessīve

1. vocative masculine singular of excessīvus