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Another word for overmuch

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Adjective

  1. Exceeding a normal or reasonable limit

    See also:

    excess

Adverb

  1. Too much

    See also:

    excess

Noun

  1. An amount or quantity beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate

      1. (Law) Words or allegations in a legal document or pleading that do not have any legal value.
      2. An excess of words; verbiage.
      3. Surplus; excess.
      1. Excess of a corporation's net assets over the face value of its capital stock.
      2. An amount or quantity in excess of what is needed.
      3. Excess of receipts over expenditures.
      1. The quality or state of being superfluous; in excess or overabundance.
      2. A quantity or number beyond what is needed; excess; superabundance
      3. Overabundance; excess.
      1. An excessive supply. [from 19th c.]
      2. Too great a supply
      3. A supply in excess of what is appropriate or required.
      1. An excessive stock; a surplus or glut
      2. Surplus stock, specif. when sold at a reduced price
      3. An excessive supply.
      1. The amount by which actual costs exceed estimates.
      2. The exceeding of estimated costs for product development and manufacture covered by contract.
      3. An excess amount produced, as of manufactured goods or copies of printed matter
      1. An outlet or vent through which excess liquid may escape.
      2. The amount that overflows; surplus
      3. (Computers) A condition in which a calculation produces a unit of data too large to be stored in the location allotted to it.
      1. A surplus or excess, as of goods
      2. An amount, as of money or goods, that is actually on hand and exceeds the listed amount in records or books.
      3. A surplus; an excess.
      1. A glutting or being glutted
      2. A supply of certain goods that is greater than the demand
      3. An oversupply:
      1. Animal tissue containing such substances.
      2. Any of various mixtures of solid or semisolid triglycerides found in adipose animal tissue or in the seeds of plants: they are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents
      3. Unnecessary excess:
      1. The state of exceeding what is normal or sufficient:
      2. An amount or quantity beyond what is normal or sufficient; a surplus:
      3. Intemperance; overindulgence:
    See also:

    excess

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Sentence Examples

  • In order to discount the chances of failure, Bonaparte warned the three Directors that Augereau was a turbulent politician, not to be trusted overmuch.

  • It is not fitting to subtilize overmuch, and in the end John of Salisbury's solution is the practical one, his charitable spirit pointing him in particular to that love which is the fulfilling of the law.

  • The saving salt of Elizabeth's character, with all its wellnigh incredible mixture of heroism and egotism, meanness and magnificence, was simply this, that, overmuch as she loved herself, she did yet love England better.

  • He also edited the first two volumes of Higden's Polychronicon (1858) and Bishop Pecock's Repressor of Overmuch Blaming of the Clergy (1860), undertaken at the request of the Master of the Rolls; Introductory Lecture on Archaeology (1865); Roman Antiquities found at Rougham [1872]; Catalogue of Birds of Suffolk (1884-1886); Flora of Suffolk (with W.

  • All his training too, university, priestly and in foreign parts, tended to make him logical overmuch.

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