excessive

ik-SES-ivadj

Meaning more than is necessary, normal or reasonable

Memory hook EX-CESS: way past ENOUGH. Pip pours syrup on his pancakes until it floods the plate, drips off the table and puddles on the floor: the amount is excessive.

Ten straight minutes of honking seemed a bit excessive.

In context The fine of five hundred dollars for an overdue library book struck everyone as excessive; it was far more than the book itself was worth.

Similar too much, extreme, inordinate, undue

Opposite moderate, reasonable, insufficient

From excess, from Latin excedere (to go beyond): ex- (out) + cedere (to go).

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