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excessive

ex·ces·sive

excessive

 
 
pronunciation:
ihk se sihv
features:
Word Combinations (adjective)
part of speech: adjective
definition: more than is needed or considered fair; not reasonable.
Five dollars for a hamburger seemed like an excessive price.
antonyms:
deficient, moderate
similar words:
extreme, profuse, stiff, unreasonable
Word Combinations  About this feature
(adj.)excessive + noun absence, accumulation, alcohol, amount, anxiety, bail, borrowing, buildup, burden, caffeine, carbohydrate, carbon, caution, claim, compensation, concentration, consumption, cost, criticism, daytime, debt, demand, dependence, drinking, drought, eating, emission, emphasis, erosion, exercise, expectation, expenditure, exposure, fatigue, fines, force, gain, growth, heat, hormone, intake, interference, load, loading, loss, masking, moisture, nitrogen, noise, nutrient, overtime, pay, perspiration, pesticide, pressure, profit, punishment, radiation, regulation, religion, risk, salary, secrecy, sleep, sleepiness, smoking, sodium, speed, spending, spread, stress, tactic, taking, taxation, tension, thirst, use, violence, waste, wealth, wear, weight, worry, zeal  [See all][See only the most frequent]
derivations: excessively (adv.), excessiveness (n.)