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单词 inordinate
释义
inordinate
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adj

Something that's excessive or that goes way beyond normal limits is inordinate — like an overly obsessive love for chocolate or a fantasy football junkie who spends an inordinate amount of time checking his team.
The adjective inordinate is the exact opposite of "reasonable" and "moderate." In fact, when you call something inordinate, you're saying it's downright exorbitant and out of proportion. It's often used to describe abnormal amounts of time spent doing something — playing video games at work or canoodling with your girlfriend at school, for example. But as Oscar Wilde once said, “An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.”
WORD FAMILY
inordinate: inordinately, inordinateness+/ordinate: inordinate, ordinated, ordinates, ordinating
USAGE EXAMPLES
And they put inordinate weight on what appeared in the daily book around the time of a national security incident.
Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016)
She chronicles the inordinate tragedy Benson experienced in his life, the early deaths of two children, two wives and three brothers.
Washington Times(Dec 12, 2016)
Delta’s decision really shouldn’t be a story, yet it seems to have garnered an inordinate amount of press.
The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016)
adj beyond normal limits
a book of inordinate length
Syn
excessive, undue, unreasonable
immoderate
beyond reasonable limits
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