Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - excessive
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If you describe the amount or level of something as excessive, you disapprove of it because it is more or higher than is necessary or reasonable. ...the alleged use of excessive force by police... The government says that local authority spending is excessive. ADJ c darkgreen]disapproval • excessively Managers are also accused of paying themselves excessively high salaries... Mum had started taking pills and drinking excessively. ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v
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adjective Date: 14th century exceeding what is usual, proper, necessary, or normal • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun Synonyms: ~, immoderate, inordinate, extravagant, exorbitant, extreme mean going beyond a normal limit. ~ implies an amount or degree too great to be reasonable or acceptable ~ punishment. immoderate implies lack of desirable or necessary restraint immoderate spending. inordinate implies an exceeding of the limits dictated by reason or good judgment inordinate pride. extravagant implies an indifference to restraints imposed by truth, prudence, or good taste extravagant claims for the product. exorbitant implies a departure from accepted standards regarding amount or degree exorbitant prices. extreme may imply an approach to the farthest limit possible or conceivable but commonly means only to a notably high degree extreme shyness. ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 too much or too great. 2 more than what is normal or necessary. Derivatives excessively adv. excessiveness n. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
прил. чрезмерный, излишний - excessive indebtedness - excessive profit Syn: superfluous, unnecessary, over, redundant ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. чрезмерный; излишний; избыточный excessive praise —- неумеренные похвалы an excessive smoker —- заядлый курильщик the price is excessive —- цена чрезмерно (излишне) высока to be an excessive drinker —- пить лишнего 2. чрезмерная степень, эксцессив ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ adj much more than is reasonable or necessary (Boyd's wife left him because of his excessive drinking. | $15 for two cokes seems a little excessive.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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