Results for excessive

Definitions of excessive:

part of speech: adjective

Extreme; unreasonable; extravagant.

part of speech: noun

EXCESSIVENESS.

part of speech: adverb

Excessively.

Usage examples for excessive:

• All degrees of vice are excessive "The Young Man's Guide", William A. Alcott

• Mrs. Sandford and I were sitting on the piazza, where the heat of an excessive sultry day was now relieved a little by a slender breeze coming out of the north- west. "Daisy", Elizabeth Wetherell

• It was obvious that Driscoll was anxious to avoid being swept into the rapid and Thirlwell admitted the prudence of this, but did not think the danger great enough to account for his rather excessive caution. "The Lure of the North", Harold Bindloss

• The Flatulences within become very audible, some of them are discharged upwards; in a little Time after, Vomitings come on, which increase till the Patient has thrown up all he had taken in, with a still further Augmentation of the excessive Pain. "Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health", Samuel Auguste David Tissot