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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
excessive
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Some might regard that influence as excessive.
▪ The postmodernists rejected this viewpoint, however, as excessive romanticism, but Peto would surely not have cared.
▪ Thousands of pub landlords had been given notices to quit and offered lease agreements with rents widely regarded as excessive.
■ NOUN
alcohol
▪ Incontinence is another problem that can begin by excessive alcohol intake.
amount
▪ This is because they generate excessive amounts of data and information that must be interpreted by specialists.
▪ The circulating blood will characteristically contain excessive amounts of conjugated bilirubin.
▪ They also point out that the excessive amounts of sugar in some brands could also be harmful to older babies' teeth.
▪ Unfortunately the tomb retained an excessive amount of humidity and this provoked the decomposition of most of the body.
▪ Initially, fines would be imposed against enterprises using excessive amounts of energy.
▪ Therefore, the plasma cells produce either an excessive amount of kappa light chains or an excessive amount of lambda light chains.
▪ He was mostly happy without an excessive amount of work, and when it was not there he did not invent it.
▪ Therefore, the plasma cells produce either an excessive amount of kappa light chains or an excessive amount of lambda light chains.
consumption
▪ But for athletes and others who are likely to perspire heavily, excessive consumption of caffeine could lead to dehydration.
demand
▪ He chose a dependent wife in Elsie, who further controlled him by her ailments and excessive demands.
▪ The new managers did find that their new positions made excessive demands.
▪ Problems such as deadlines, noise, marital strife, excessive demands made on our time by others, and so forth.
▪ However, violent sports that make excessive demands on the body with little preparation, can do more harm than good.
▪ Weakened by warfare, imported diseases and the excessive demands of their overlords, they were obliged in the end to submit.
▪ We urge that what is devised should not make excessive demands upon time or resources.
drinking
▪ There are also the dangers of cutting down on food to pay for drink or drifting into excessive drinking due to loneliness.
▪ Abusive or excessive drinking is harmful not only to society but to the long-term interests of the industry as well.
heat
▪ The batteries should not be exposed to excessive heat or cold temperatures, or exposed to moisture.
▪ External factors include excessive heat or poor ventilation.
level
▪ The lighting of the galleries has also been transformed and computer controlled blinds fitted to prevent damage from excessive levels of daylight.
▪ But in heavy rains, when the reservoir overflows, excessive levels of metals flow into Keswick Reservoir and downstream.
▪ Consequently, competition was eliminated and tariffs reached an excessive level.
▪ Overtime should be monitored to prevent excessive levels.
▪ We can neither perpetuate excessive levels of support, nor penalise the most efficient producers.
noise
▪ The council has also set up a hotline on for local people to ring if they suffer excessive noise.
▪ However, an environment in which people can not sleep adequately because of excessive noise can not be considered a safe environment.
▪ Trailing edge vibration has been dampened by reinforcement with thin glass fibre rod inserts or mylar overlays, so eliminating excessive noise.
number
▪ We must beware of using an excessive number of motifs.
▪ Then there are the implications that an excessive number of cars have on society s infrastructure.
▪ Standard medical practice may be ignored, with excessive numbers of drugs or overly expensive formulations being prescribed.
▪ Much good meat is wasted in the face of such excessive numbers.
price
▪ The Competition Commission found they were not charging excessive prices or making excessive profits.
▪ But that is hardly an excessive price to pay for cutting risk, in the midst of a tight election campaign.
▪ A company in a dominant position which charges excessive prices for its products may be acting abusively.
regulation
▪ The excessive regulations discredit the essential.
▪ Critics maintain excessive regulation can stand in the way of business expansion and faster approval of life-saving drugs.
▪ These are the folks who elect politicians who produce excessive regulation.
speed
▪ A spinning earth eliminated the excessive speed of rotation currently ascribed to the outer spheres.
▪ She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side.
▪ In most cases excessive speed was too blame.
▪ No excessive speed had been involved.
use
▪ Avoid indiscriminate or excessive use of fixed protection.
▪ That often happens from excessive use of the same chemicals.
▪ All such phones sold in Britain are to carry a health warning on the perils of excessive use, particularly by children.
▪ The report had alleged torture of prisoners, rigging of trials, and excessive use of the death penalty.
▪ Cauthen was suspended for four days for excessive use and for hitting Witness Box.
▪ Despite these problems, excessive use of sprays can be avoided by monitoring crops for pests or damage.
▪ Once again, this points to excessive use of imprisonment, at least on the part of the Crown Court.
▪ We oppose excessive use of decontextualised exercises written only for perusal and marking by a teacher.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ $10 for two cups of coffee seems excessive.
▪ As usual, the opposition claims the government is guilty of excessive spending.
▪ Don's wife left him because of his excessive gambling.
▪ The campaign is trying to stop the excessive use of chemicals in farming.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Critics have argued that an excessive commercial focus will lead researchers to ignore pure science.
▪ Grades so high, she was Saying, must reflect excessive study.
▪ It seemed excessive, and I said so when he told me.
▪ Not building up excessive national debts is something that countries should do anyway, for their own long-term wellbeing.
▪ Overempowered children have excessive control over the household.
▪ She accepted the therapist's simple interpretation that this probably inpart explained her excessive need for attention and reassurance from Charles.
▪ The lighting of the galleries has also been transformed and computer controlled blinds fitted to prevent damage from excessive levels of daylight.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excessive

Excessive \Ex*cess"ive\ ([e^]k*s[e^]s"[i^]v), a. [Cf. F. excessif.] Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.

Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living.
--Shak.

Syn: Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous
-- Ex*cess*ive*ly, adv. - Ex*cess"ive*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
excessive

late 14c., from Old French excessif "excessive, oppressive," from Latin excess-, past participle stem of excedere "to depart, go beyond" (see exceed). Related: Excessively; excessiveness.

Wiktionary
excessive

a. Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.

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WordNet
excessive

  1. adj. beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: inordinate, undue, unreasonable]

  2. unrestrained in especially feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed" [syn: extravagant, exuberant, overweening]

Usage examples of "excessive".

Excessive marital indulgence produces abnormal conditions of the generative organs and not unfrequently leads to incurable disease.

This is specially apt to occur when sodium acetate is present, although it may also be due to excessive dilution.

The employment of other medicines frequently should be preceded by the administration of an agent of this class, to neutralize excessive acidity in the stomach and bowels.

Avoid the use of those articles of food which produce excessive acidity of the stomach.

An acutely satiric man in an English circle, that does not resort to the fist for a reply to him, may almost satiate the excessive fury roused in his mind by an illogical people of a provocative prosperity, mainly tongueless or of leaden tongue above the pressure of their necessities, as he takes them to be.

The organ of alimentiveness, located directly in front of the ear, indicates the functional conditions of the stomach, which, when aroused by excessive hunger, exerts a debasing influence upon this and all of the adjacent organs, and is demoralizing to both body and mind.

I deplore to deprive these gentlemen of the entertainment to which they were looking forward, but unless you should prove of an excessive amiability I am afraid they must suffer with me the consequences of my error.

Sent at the age of ten to the college of Brives, he showed great aptitude for study, but his independence of spirit was so excessive that he was almost constantly in a state of rebellion against his teachers, and was finally dismissed from the school.

Where local and foreign milk alike are drawn into a general plan for protecting the interstate commerce in the commodity from the interferences, burdens and obstructions, arising from excessive surplus and the social and sanitary evils of low values, the power of the Congress extends also to the local sales.

And his doctors tinkered with parts of the caudate region, trying to ensure that Bobby did not suffer from symptoms relating to obsessive-compulsive disorder which led some people to a need for excessive security, order, predictability and ritual, a need in some circumstances satisfied by the membership of religious communities.

Even that Dagon felt was excessive, but she had been adamant, and Bernard was in agreement, so to keep the both of them happy and himself sane he had given his permission.

The earliest reports simply attributed the derailment to excessive speed.

Now perceive I well, that you are an occasion to make this place, which is the principall city of all Thessaly, to be forsaken of all men, and to reduce it into an uninhabitable Desart, by reasone of your excessive prices of victuals, but assure yourself that you shall not escape without punishment, and you shall know what myne office is, and how I ought to punish such as offend.

The empress did not practise the sublime virtue of tolerance for what is called illegitimate love, and in her excessive devotion she thought that her persecutions of the most natural inclinations in man and woman were very agreeable to God.

Warning signs include extreme preoccupation with weight, strict dieting followed by high-calorie eating binges, overeating when distressed, feeling out of control, disappearing after a meal, depressive moods, alcohol or drug abuse, frequent use of laxatives or diuretics, excessive exercising, and irregularities in menstrual cycle.