Excessive

Adjective

 * 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

 * See also Thesaurus:excessive

Antonyms

 * insufficient
 * deficient

Derived terms

 * excessive number

Related terms

 * exceed
 * excess

Thesaurus
a bit much, abandoned, acute, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed, bibulous, boundless, cloying, crapulent, crapulous, cutthroat, cutting, disgusting, disproportionate, dissipated, dizzy, drastic, egregious, enormous, exacting, exaggerated, excess, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, fierce, fulsome, furious, gigantic, gluttonous, gouging, grandiloquent, great, grossly overpriced, high, high-flown, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, improper, inappropriate, incontinent, indulgent, inflated, inflationary, inordinate, intemperate, intense, keen, limitless, magnified, monstrous, nauseating, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, over, overbig, overboard, overdeveloped, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overgrown, overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overmuch, overpraised, overpriced, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overweening, overwrought, piercing, preposterous, prodigal, profuse, prohibitive, puffed, rigorous, rough, self-indulgent, severe, sharp, sky-high, skyrocketing, spiraling, splitting, steep, stiff, stretched, super, superfluous, superlative, supernatural, swinish, too much, tough, touted, towering, unbounded, unbridled, unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, undue, unfrugal, unjustifiable, unlimited, unmeasurable, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, untempered, unthrifty, unwarranted, usurious, vehement, venomous, violent, virulent

Translations

 * Arabic: زائد, مبالغ
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: excessiu
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 过度, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,


 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: óhóflegur, óhófleg , óhóflegt
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 과도의
 * Polish: nadmierny, wygórowany
 * Russian:, , , избыточный
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: excesivo
 * Swedish: överdriven