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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

more than what is necessary or normal;

e.g. He got alcohol poisoning because he was drinking an excessive amount of alcohol.

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Similar Words

Baroque

Bunyanesque

Cavernous

Devilish

Exorbitant

Extravagant

Extreme

Fancy

Immoderate

Inordinate

Intolerable

Lavish

Monolithic

Over-the-top

Overbright

Overdue

Overmuch

Overweening

Steep

Stiff

Towering

Unconscionable

Undue

Unmerciful

Zooty

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Opposite Words

Central

Centrist

Deficient

Inadequate

Insufficient

Intermediate

Mean

Media

Median

Medium

Middle

Middle-of-the-road

Middling

Midsize

Minimal

Minimum

Moderate

Modest

Nonrevolutionary

Self-disciplined

Temperate

The

Unflamboyant

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Related Words

Big

Biggish

Boundless

Boxcar

Bulky

Considerable

Copious

Delirious

Endless

Ferocious

Feverish

Fierce

Flamboyant

Flaring

Flashy

Florid

Flowery

Frantic

Frenetic

Frenzied

Furious

Galore

Garish

Gaudy

Goodly

Grand

Great

Handsome

Hefty

Hifalutin

High-flown

High-sounding

Highfalutin

Hulking

Husky

Immeasurable

Improper

Inappropriate

Infinite

Large

Lavish

Loud

Mad

Magnific

Noisy

Ornate

Ostentatious

Outsize

Oversize

Profuse

Purple

Rabid

Razzle-dazzle

Rhetorical

Riotous

Sizable

Splashy

Substantial

Swank

Thick

Tidy

Unbearable

Unjustifiable

Unrestrained

Unseemly

Unwarranted

Violent

Voluminous

Wild

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