Excess Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭk-sĕs, ĕksĕs
More than is needed
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. overabundance
  2. surfeit
  3. exorbitance
  4. plethora
  5. superabundance
  6. superfluity
  7. glut
  8. excessiveness
  9. extravagance
  10. profusion
  11. overkill
  12. overflow
  13. redundancy
  14. redundance
  15. lavishness
  16. surplus
  17. inordinateness
  18. abundance
  19. embarrassment
  20. undue amount
  21. too-much
  22. too many
  23. fulsomeness
  24. exuberance
  25. copiosity
  26. inundation
  27. debauchery
  28. dissoluteness
  29. exorbitancy
  30. extravagancy
  31. extra
  32. waste
  33. wastefulness
  34. flood
  35. luxuriance
  36. extravagantness
  37. gravy
  38. immoderation
  39. oversupply
  40. overdose
  41. intemperance
  42. overload
  43. plenty
  44. nimiety
  45. over
  46. embarras de richesses (French)
  47. snootful
  48. overboard
  49. bellyful
  50. overdoing
  51. enough and then some
  52. drug-on-the-market
  53. overindulgence
  54. too-much-of-a-good-thing
  55. overplus
  56. more than
  57. over-and-above
  58. plus
  59. excessively
  60. prodigality
  61. extravagantly
  62. to extremes
  63. prolixity
  64. rampancy
  65. superfluousness
  66. remainder
  67. remainder exuberance
  68. residue
  69. satiety
  70. slack
  71. supererogation
  72. superfluous
  73. superflux
  74. surplusage
  75. verbiage
  76. verbosity
Antonyms:
  1. lack
  2. dearth
  3. deficiency
Conduct that is not temperate
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. intemperance
  2. overindulgence
  3. prodigality
  4. dissipation
  5. surfeit
  6. undeservedness
  7. undeservingness
Antonyms:
  1. lack
  2. privation
  3. want
  4. deprivation
  5. need
  6. insufficiency
  7. economy
  8. poverty
  9. dearth
  10. frugality
  11. deficiency
  12. moderation
  13. shortcoming
The portion that remains
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. balance
  2. remainder
  3. rest
  4. surplus
  5. residue
  6. leavings
  7. refuse
  8. by-product
  9. waste
  10. tailings
  11. tare
  12. leftovers
Being more than is usual, required, or permitted:
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. superfluous

Words Related to Excess

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Excess Sentence Examples

  • He even made grants in excess to the others from his own share.

  • She scooted closer to him, shifting the blanket so that she could drape the excess around his shoulders.

  • Would the heart, overweighted with sudden joy, stop beating for very excess of happiness?

  • It is insoluble in dilute acids, but is readily soluble in excess of potassium cyanide.

  • Taran nodded and stripped off his tunic and excess weapons before dropping into a fighting stance opposite his challenger.

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