Excessive vs Cloying - What's the difference?
excessive | cloying |
Exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate.
Unpleasantly excessive.
* August 16 2014 , Daniel Taylor, "
Excessively sweet.
As adjectives the difference between excessive and cloying
is that excessive is exceeding the usual bounds of something; extravagant; immoderate while cloying is unpleasantly excessive.As a verb cloying is
.excessive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "I personally consider putting a wide vibrato on a single 16th triplet note at 160 beats per minute rather excessive , nay even stupid."
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* insufficient * deficientDerived terms
* excessive numbercloying
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk :
- It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.