excessively

Adverb

Meaning

to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

too overly ultra over very extremely greatly heavily excess excessive fault intensely enormously exceedingly extraordinarily

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Antonyms

just least little rather slightly somewhat

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Phrases with the word

compliment excessively excessively talkative excessively active be done excessively excessively sensitive excessively greedy eater

Examples

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like? John Chrysostom

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. Eric Hoffer

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. Virginia Woolf

To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old! Christopher Lee

The excessively kind-hearted person becomes a slave. Myanmar Proverb

Do not be excessively timid or excessively confident. Cuban Proverb

Close letter words and terms

excessive worry about health excessive yawning excessive zeal excessively active excessively ambitious person excessively buy