excessively

English

Etymology

From excessive +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪkˈsɛsɪvli/
• Hyphenation: ex‧ces‧sive‧ly

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Adverb

excessively (comparative more excessively, superlative most excessively)

1. To an excessive degree.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excessively

   The application form was excessively complicated.

   • 2012, Daniel Eckstein, The Couple’S Match Book:

     While Rabbit is described by Milne as being excessively “captainish” or bossy, he also receives warm praise, he has frequent visits from Pooh.

2. In excess.

   He smoked excessively.

   • 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 78:

     Acidotic animals go off their feed, pant and salivate excessively, paw and scratch their bellies, and eat dirt.

Translations

to an excessive degree

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can:
• Armenian: չափազանց (hy) (čʻapʻazancʻ), չափից դուրս (čʻapʻicʻ durs)
• Bulgarian: прекалено (bg) (prekaleno)
• Catalan: excessivament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過分地 / 过分地 (guòfènde), 過度地 / 过度地 (guòdùde)

• Czech: nadměrně
• Dutch: buitensporig (nl), extreem (nl)
• Finnish: liian (fi)
• French: excessivement (fr), bien trop (much too...), beaucoup trop (much too...)
• Galician: excesivamente
• German: übermäßig (de)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can:
• Hungarian: túlságosan (hu)
• Italian: eccessivamente (it)
• Japanese: 過度に
• Korean: please add this translation if you can:
• Latin: excessive
• Malayalam: അമിതമായി (amitamāyi)
• Polish: nadmiernie (pl), przesadnie (pl)
• Portuguese: excessivamente (pt)
• Romanian: în mod excesiv (ro), în mod extrem (ro)
• Russian: изли́шне (ru) (izlíšne), чрезме́рно (ru) (črezmérno), чересчу́р (ru) (čeresčúr)
• Sanskrit: अतीव (sa) (atīva)
• Spanish: excesivamente (es), demasiado (es), demasiadamente (es), más de la cuenta
• Telugu: ఎక్కువగా (te) (ekkuvagā)
• Ukrainian: надмі́рно (nadmírno), надмі́ру (nadmíru)
• Vietnamese: quá chừng (vi), quá đáng (vi)
• Volapük: tumödo

in excess

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can:
• Armenian: չափից դուրս (čʻapʻicʻ durs)
• Catalan: excessivament (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 過分地 / 过分地 (guòfènde), 過度地 / 过度地 (guòdùde)

• Dutch: excessief (nl)
• Finnish: liikaa (fi), liiallisesti (fi)
• French: excessivement (fr), de trop (fr)
• German: exzessiv (de)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can:
• Italian: eccessivamente (it), troppo (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can:
• Korean: please add this translation if you can:
• Latin: nimium
• Malayalam: അമിതമായി (amitamāyi)
• Polish: w nadmiarze
• Portuguese: excessivamente (pt)
• Russian: сли́шком мно́го (slíškom mnógo), чрезме́рно (ru) (črezmérno)
• Spanish: excesivamente (es), demasiado (es), en demasía (formal), demasiadamente (es), más de la cuenta
• Vietnamese: quá chừng (vi), quá đáng (vi)

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Translations to be checked

• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 너무나 (ko) (neomuna)