excessiveadjective
uk/ekˈses.ɪv/us/ekˈses.ɪv/C1 too much:
Excessive exercise can sometimes cause health problems.
Any more pudding would simply be excessive.
More examples
- The film was criticized for its excessive violence and nudity.
- The message of the campaign is that excessive drinking is a health risk.
- They complained about excessive government intrusion into their legitimate activities.
- For years, the organization was constrained by excessive bureaucracy.
- The word 'lady' has connotations of refinement and excessive femininity that some women find offensive.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Too much and unnecessary
- a sledgehammer to crack a nut idiom
- avalanche
- be up to your neck (in sth) idiom
- bellyful
- binge
- carry/take coals to Newcastle idiom
- immoderate
- inessential
- insatiable
- lousy
- make a pig of yourself idiom
- plenty
- plethora
- proliferate
- redundancy
- redundant
- sock
- supplementary
- surplus
- weigh
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excessively
adverb uk/ekˈses.ɪv.li/us/ekˈses.ɪv.li/
She was polite but not excessively so.
I don't drink excessively.