EGAVE

excessive

About 19.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Exceeding the usual bounds of something; too much (of amount); extravagant; immoderate.
    The movie's excessive use of special effects distracted from the plot.

Similar words

undue inordinate extravagant overweening exuberant immoderate unreasonable unrestrained overly exorbitant

Often followed by

and use amounts heat amount or drinking in force

Word family

excessively excessiveness excessivenesses

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