excessive

English

Etymology

From Middle French excessif, from Medieval Latin excessivus

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsɛsɪv/

Adjective

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.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:excessive

Antonyms

Derived terms

excessive number

Related terms

Translations

exceeding the bounds of something

Arabic: زَائِد‎ (zāʾid)
Armenian: ավելորդ (hy) (avelord)
Bulgarian: прекален (bg) (prekalen)
Catalan: excessiu
Chinese:
Mandarin: 過度 (zh), 过度 (zh) (guòdù), 過分 (zh), 过分 (zh) (guòfèn)
Czech: nadměrný (cs) m
Dutch: overmatig (nl)
Esperanto: troa, ekscesa
Finnish: liiallinen (fi), yletön (fi)
French: excessif (fr)
Georgian: ზედმეტი (zedmeṭi), მეტისმეტი (meṭismeṭi), გადაჭარბებული (gadač̣arbebuli), ზომაგადასული (zomagadasuli), უზომო (uzomo), ჭარბი (č̣arbi), გადამეტებული (gadameṭebuli)
German: übermäßig (de), exzessiv (de)
Greek: υπερβολικός (el) m (ypervolikós), υπέρμετρος (el) m (ypérmetros)
Ancient: ὑπέρμετρος (hupérmetros)
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
Maori: tuhene, inati, rikarika
Norwegian:
Bokmål: overdreven

Nynorsk: overdriven
Polish: nadmierny (pl), wygórowany (pl) m
Portuguese: excessivo (pt)
Romanian: excesiv (ro), excesivă f
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)

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛk.sɛ.siv/
Audio (file)

Adjective

excessive

feminine singular of excessif

Interlingua

Adjective

excessive (comparative plus excessive, superlative le plus excessive)

excessive

Related terms

excesso

Latin

Adjective

excessive

vocative masculine singular of excessivus

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