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adj
More than is normal, necessary or specified.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Synonyms: offcut, surplus
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The state of surpassing or going beyond a limit; the state of being beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; more than what is usual or proper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: overage, superabundance, surplus
Antonyms: deficiency, lack, shortage
noun
The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An act of eating or drinking more than enough.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Spherical excess, the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for a part of the claim.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
Topics: business, insurance
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: deductible
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To declare (an employee) surplus to requirements, such that he or she might not be given work.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
more than is needed, desired, or required
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
Antonyms: none provided
noun
excessive indulgence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: overindulgence
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: indulgence, indulging, pampering, humoring
noun
immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: excessiveness, inordinateness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: immoderation, immoderateness
Narrower terms: extravagance, extravagancy, exorbitance, outrageousness, overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment
noun
a quantity much larger than is needed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: surplus, surplusage, nimiety
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance
noun
the state of being more than full
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: surfeit, overabundance
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fullness
History
From Middle English exces (“excess, ecstasy”), from Old French exces, from Latin excessus (“a going out, loss of self-possession”), from excedere, excessum (“to go out, go beyond”). See exceed.
Across languages
137 source translations are retained for this English entry.
