excess
Meaning of excess
noun
- an amount of something that is more than necessary, permitted, or desirable.
are you suffering from an excess of stress in your life?
- lack of moderation, especially in eating or drinking.
bouts of alcoholic excess
- a part of an insurance claim to be paid by the insured.
we will deduct the excess from the loss and then pay up to the policy limit
- exceeding a prescribed or desirable amount.
trim any excess fat off the meat
- required as extra payment.
the full excess fare had to be paid
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin excessus, from excedere ‘go out, surpass’ (see exceed).
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Hyphenation of excess
ex-cess
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- excess is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
excess synonyms
Meaning extra:
extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
Meaning surplus:
Meaning excessiveness:
Meaning surfeit:
Meaning overindulgence:
Meaning an unnecessarily or excessively large amount or number of something:
Meaning an abundance or large quantity of something:
Meaning a large or excessive amount of something:
Meaning an excessively abundant supply of something:
Meaning a part of something that is left over when other parts have been completed, used, or dealt with:
Meaning an instance or period of resting:
Meaning a small amount of something that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used:
Meaning the excess or surplus not able to be accommodated by an available space:
Meaning the action or result of spilling over or spreading into another area:
Meaning something, especially food, remaining after the rest has been used:
Meaning a part or quantity that is left after the greater part has been used, removed, or destroyed:
Meaning things that have been left as worthless:
Meaning a quantity by which amounts differ; the remainder left after subtraction of one value from another:
Meaning a chemical residue:
Meaning the action or fact of consuming something to excess:
Meaning lack of moderation or restraint:
Meaning the quality of being excessive and lacking in restraint; overindulgence:
Meaning reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources:
Meaning lack of restraint in spending money or using resources:
Meaning moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury:
Meaning excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs:
Meaning overindulgence in sensual pleasures; dissipated living:
Meaning debauched living; dissipation:
Meaning not or no longer desired:
Meaning not needed:
Meaning not being, or never having been, used:
Meaning more than is necessary, normal, or desirable; immoderate:
Meaning remaining; surplus:
Meaning added, extra, or supplementary to what is already present or available:
Meaning retain for future use:
excess antonyms
Meaning a scarcity or lack of something:
Meaning the state of being without or not having enough of something:
Meaning the avoidance of excess or extremes, especially in one's behaviour or political opinions:
Meaning a measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control:
Translation of excess
- Spanish: exceso, excedente, libertinaje, depravación
- French: dissolution, lasciveté, débauche, libertinage, dévergondage, lascivité
- Italian: lascivia, dissolutezza, depravazione
- German: Ausschweifung, Exzess
- Portuguese: devassidão
Words that rhyme with excess
cESS, cess, abcess, access, insuccess, multiaccess, nonaccess, nonsuccess, preaccess, presuccess, reaccess, semisuccess, success, unsuccess, decess, nonrecess, precess, predecess, recess, secess, Princess, princess, unprincess, bioprocess, counterprocess, interprocess, intraprocess, multiprocess, overprocess, photoprocess, postprocess, preprocess, process, reprocess, subprocess, transprocess, intercess, abscess
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