EXCESSIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does excessive mean? 

• EXCESSIVE (adjective)
  The adjective EXCESSIVE has 2 senses:

1. beyond normal limits

2. unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

  Familiarity information: EXCESSIVE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXCESSIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Beyond normal limits

Synonyms:

excessive; inordinate; undue; unreasonable

Context example:

unreasonable demands

Similar:

immoderate (beyond reasonable limits)

Derivation:

exceed (be or do something to a greater degree)

exceed (be superior or better than some standard)

excessiveness (immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

Synonyms:

excessive; extravagant; exuberant; overweening

Context example:

overweening greed

Similar:

unrestrained (not subject to restraint)

Derivation:

excessiveness (immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits)

 Context examples 

This system is exactly what TESS was designed to find — small, temperate planets that pass, or transit, in front of an inactive host star, one lacking excessive stellar activity, such as flares.

(NASA’s TESS Mission Scores ‘Hat Trick’ With 3 New Worlds, NASA)

Swelling due to an excessive accumulation of fluid in the brain.

(Cerebral Edema, NCI Thesaurus)

When the mice were returned to a normal diet, both blood flow and cognition improved, suggesting that the negative effects of excessive salt consumption could be reversible.

(Hold the salt: gut reaction may impair the brains of mice, National Institutes of Health)

Excessive intake of sugar stimulates the body's endogenous synthesis of fatty acids, which can be detected in the plasma fatty acid composition.

(Blood Fatty Acids Reveal Your Child's Diet, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The symptoms of AES include convulsion, unconsciousness, excessive sweating, and frothing at the mouth.

(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)

Closest to the black hole, the gravitational light-bending becomes so excessive that we can see the underside of the disk as a bright ring of light seemingly outlining the black hole.

(NASA Visualization Shows a Black Hole’s Warped World, NASA)

A disorder characterized by swelling due to an excessive accumulation of fluid in the brain.

(Cerebral Edema, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

You would not think £ 1000 apiece an excessive sum for them?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A sleep disorder characterized by a tendency for excessive sleepiness during the day which occurs even after adequate sleep in the nighttime.

(Narcolepsy, NCI Thesaurus)

It is used to control the symptoms of excessive sympathetic stimulation in patients with PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA.

(Metyrosine, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)