| ADHD |
abbreviation of "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder"; a mental disorder, usually beginning in childhood, characterized by impulsiveness and excessive activity. |
| adulation |
extreme or excessive praise. |
| affordable |
able to be obtained without excessive sacrifice of money or without incurring serious consequences. |
| anal-retentive |
in psychoanalysis, having or showing unusual obstinacy, frugality, or an excessive concern with trivial details that supposedly results from conflict over toilet training in childhood. [2 definitions] |
| arrogance |
the condition or quality of being arrogant; excessive belief in one's superiority; excessive pride. [1/2 definitions] |
| avarice |
the excessive desire to accumulate riches; greed; cupidity. |
| bathos |
false or very excessive sentimentality, esp. in order to evoke pity; mawkishness. [1/2 definitions] |
| belabor |
to continue excessive efforts on or excessive discussion of. [1/2 definitions] |
| blue in the face |
exhausted from excessive effort or activity. |
| bow and scrape |
to behave with excessive politeness and deference. |
| brag |
to speak with excessive pride in oneself, or anything or anyone associated with oneself; boast. [1/5 definitions] |
| bureaucracy |
a system of administration characterized by excessive routine and inflexible rules. [1/2 definitions] |
| burn |
to injure or damage by excessive exposure to heat, as from flame or sunlight. [1/14 definitions] |
| burn out |
to become extinguished or stop functioning because of excessive friction or heat. [1/4 definitions] |
| buttress |
a structure that gives support to the outside of a building by absorbing excessive outward thrust. [1/4 definitions] |
| chauvinism |
zealous or excessive patriotism. [1/2 definitions] |
| cirrhosis |
a chronic, often fatal, disease of the liver in which excessive tissue is formed resulting in blockage of circulation. |
| clip joint |
(slang) a business, esp. a place of entertainment, that charges excessive prices. |
| commercialism |
an attitude characterized by excessive adherence to the goals of gain and profit. [1/2 definitions] |
| congest |
in pathology, to cause an excessive accumulation of blood in (an organ or vessel). [1/3 definitions] |
| congestion |
excessive mucous in the nasal passages or sinuses [2/3 definitions] |