| 单词 | excess |
| 释义 | excess (once / 283 pages) nadj Excess is too much of something, like big-time overindulgence. Eating to excess makes your stomach hurt, and spending to excess means you can't pay your credit card bills. Excess comes from the Latin word excessus meaning, "go out, going beyond the bounds of reason," like eating and spending in excess. (Not so reasonable.) Although it spends most of its time as a noun, it can also be an adjective to describe "more than is required or needed," like when excess water spills over the top of the bathtub, or those excess pounds spill over the top of your jeans. WORD FAMILYexcess: excesses USAGE EXAMPLESMy female GP changed my condition to non-morbid obesity after I complained that the previous label, obesity due to excess food consumption, was inaccurate. New York Times(May 02, 2016) After she died, she was buried with grave goods far in excess of others. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) Remove the chicken from the marinade, shaking off any excess. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1n the state of being more than full Syn|Hyper overabundance, surfeit fullness the condition of being filled to capacity 2n a quantity much larger than is needed Syn|Hyper nimiety, surplus, surplusage overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance a quantity that is more than what is appropriate 3n immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits Syn|Hypo|Hyper excessiveness, inordinateness extravagance, extravagancy the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth exorbitance, outrageousnessexcessive excess embarrassment, overplus, plethora, superfluityextreme excess redundance, redundancythe attribute of being superfluous and unneeded immoderateness, immoderation the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation 4n excessive indulgence Syn|Hyper overindulgence humoring, indulgence, indulging, pampering the act of indulging or gratifying a desire 5adj more than is needed, desired, or required trying to lose excess weight Syn extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus unnecessary, unneeded not necessary |
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